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State Forage Extension Specialists

 

Garry D. Lacefield

Univ. of Kentucky Research & Education Center
1205 Hopkinsville Street
P.O. Box 469
Princeton, KY 42445-0469

(270) 365-7541 ext. 202

glacefie@uky.edu

 

S. Ray Smith

Dept. of Agronomy
N-222E Agricultural Science Building - North
Lexington, KY 40546-0091

(859) 257-3358

raysmith1@uky.edu

 

 

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JULY 2008 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- KFGC Field Day in Christian County

- KFGC Forage Spokesman Nominations

- KFGC Awards Nomination

- The UK Beef Bash 2008:  A Different Kind of Field Day

- Certified Noxious Weed Seed Free Hay and Straw Program

- Nitrogen for Stockpiling Fescue

- Forage Seeding Rate Calculator

- Alfalfa Yield and Dollar Return from Wisconsin Green-Gold Program

- Relative Toxicity to Horses of Three Species of Blister Beetles

- Changes in U.S. Dairy Industry Since 1935

- Line up Forage Varieties Early for Fall Planting

- Roundup Ready Alfalfa on Track for 2009 Return

 

JUNE 2008 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- University of Kentucky Field Day - June 12, 2008

- KFGC Forage Spokesman

- KFGC Awards Nomination

- Reducing Forage Losses Can Save Big Bucks

- Weed-Seed-Free Straw Market Beats Hay

- Nutrient Value of Baled Hay

- Seeded Bermudagrass:  Make Sure to Use a Winter Hardy Variety

 

MAY 2008 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- KFGC Awards Nomination

- KFGC Forage Spokesman

- Small Grain Silage or Balage

- Hay Making Reminders and Tips

- Hay Acreage Will Drop 2%, says USDA

- Armyworm Alert

- New Video Feature on KFGC Website

- UK Forage Team Wins Outstanding Extension Project Award

- Forage Analyses are Estimates, Not Absolutes

- Should I plant Switchgrass for Biomass?

 

APRIL 2008 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- 28th Alfalfa Conference

- Breeding Better Alfalfa

- Hay Preservatives:  Propionic Acid and Microbial Inoculants

- Alternative Energy:  Does It Make Sense?

- High Priced Nitrogen:  Can I Still Afford to Fertilize Grass Hay

- Forages May Fuel Pellet Stoves

- Weed Management Options in the Spring Following a Dry Summer

 

MARCH 2008 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- 28th Alfalfa Conference:  Success in Spite of Worst Ice Storm in our 28 years

- Alfalfa Awards

- Alfalfa Hay Contest Awards

- 2007 Hay Summary

- Value and Amount of Nitrogen Fixed by Various Legumes

- Kentucky Farm Numbers and Livestock Operations

- The Differences Among Hay Conditioners

- AFGC Issues Resolution on Forage Crop Production

- Symposium to Examine Energy Potential of Forage Crops

 

FEBRUARY 2008 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- Kentucky Alfalfa Conference:  28 Years and Going Strong

- Forages at KCA

- AFGC/SRM Conference a Huge Success

- KY Producer and Students Win National Forage Awards

- Heart of America Grazing Conference

- Roundup Ready Alfalfa Update

- Can you Establish Clover and Suppress Winter Annual Weeds

- AVAIL Polymer Applied to Phosphorus Fertilizer

- Restricting Intake of Forages:  An Alternative Feeding Strategy for Wintering Beef Cows

- Restricting Time of Access to Large Round Bales of Hay Affects Hay Waste and Cow Performance

 

JANUARY 2008 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- Heart of America Grazing Conference to be held in Missouri

- Forage Producers to be Featured at KCA

- Plan to attend the AFGC/SRM Forage Conference in Louisville January 26-31

- 2007 Variety Test Reports

- Clearing up the Confusion Between Eating Meat, Cancer, and Obesity

- Teff Looks Good in Pennsylvania Trials

- Kentucky Facts

- Effect of Hay Feeding Methods on Cow Performance, Hay Waste, and Wintering Cost

- Kentucky's Agricultural Economy

 
 

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DECEMBER 2007 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- Panoramic 2SL Registered for Weed Control in Pastures

- Hay - 2007

- Energy Savings with New Light Bulbs

- Corn Stalks and a Protein Block... That all you Got?

- Reflections at my 80th Birthday - Carl S. Hoveland

 

NOVEMBER 2007 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- Sources for Hay

- If you Procrastinate, It may be too late

- Buffalo Trace Hay Auction

- Volunteer Corn

- Winter Feeding will be a Challenge

- State Summary of 2007

- Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

 

OCTOBER 2007 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- Grazing Corn Stalks

- Nutrient Losses from Harvested Hay or Crop Residue

- Biotechnology in Forage Crops:  Update for KY Farmers

- The Effects of Feeding Sericea Lespedeza Hay on Growth Rate of Goats Naturally Infected with Gastrointestinal Nematodes

- Southeastern Drought Drives Search for Hay

 

SEPTEMBER 2007 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- CRP - Forage Quality

- Stockpiling Tall Fescue

- Cost per day on Stockpiled Fescue/Fall Fertilization

- Cost per day on Soyhulls/Limit Hay

- Caution When Seeding into Drought Damaged Pastures

- Rye Produces More Winter Pasture than Wheat

- Animal Performance on Wheat and Rye Pasture

- Oats and Rye in Combination

- Spring Oats and Rye

- NAFA Summit Promotes Alfalfa for Biofuel

- Consider Annual Ryegrass as a High Quality Forage Option

 

AUGUST 2007 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- Hay Hotline Helps Farmers in Search of Forage

- Beware of Hay Payment Scam

- Judge Amends Roundup Ready Alfalfa Ruling

- Corn Acres Soar, Soy Acres Plunge

- Relative Feed Value (RFV) and Relative Forage Quality (RFQ)

- KFGC Awards

 

JULY 2007 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- Forage Losses Exceed $40 Million

- AFGC Report from Pennsylvania

- Top 14 Invasive Species in Kentucky

- Grazing Days - Fescue vs. Small Grains

- Hours to Dry Alfalfa from 80% to 20% Moisture

- Switchgrass Incentives May be in Farm Bill

- Double Whammy.....

- Eastern Gamagrass Meeting & Tour

 

JUNE 2007 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- KADB Approves $650,000 for Biomass Project

- USDA-ARS and Cooperative Extension Sponsors Eastern Gamagrass Field Day

- Roundup Ready Alfalfa Injunction is Permanent

- No Roundup Ready Harvest Restrictions Yet

- Effects of Forage on Steer Performance / Stocker Profits

- Grazing Days - Fescue vs. Small Grains

- Forage has Cellulosic Ethanol Potential

- Maintaining Forage Harvester for Fuel Efficiency

 

MAY 2007 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- Freeze and Forages

- Final Alfalfa Weevil Thoughts - Don't Forget Regrowth Feeding

- Milk Production

- Barren County Continued as Cattle Capital of Kentucky

- Armyworm Counts on the Increase Again!

- Losses of Alfalfa During Harvest

- Losses from Alfalfa During Harvest Operations

 

APRIL 2007 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- Growers can Continue to Grow and Use Roundup Ready Alfalfa, but Monsanto Company is Disappointed with Preliminary Injunction Affecting Purchase and Planting

- New Posters Featuring Forages Now Available/Southern Forages Book Now in Fourth Edition

- Teff

- Removal of Tall Fescue from Kentucky Bluegrass Pastures

- Phoenix Alfalfa has Substantial Resistance to Sclerotinia Crown and Stem Rot

 

MARCH 2007 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- The Merits of High-Capacity Mowers, Alfalfa Rotations

- Biotech Traits Can Improve Alfalfa

- Newly Updated:  Grain & Forage Crop Guide for Kentucky

- New Publication:  Long Term Variety Test Summary

- AFGC Will Hold its Annual Meeting This June in Pennsylvania

- Increase in Alfalfa Acreage & Yield

- Conversion from Corn to Grassland Provides Economic and Environmental Benefits to a Maryland Beef Farm

- Disc, Sickle Mowers Both Have Pluses

- Kentucky Farm Numbers

 

FEBRUARY 2007 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- AFGC Update

- 2007 Variety Trial Reports

- Top Ten Agricultural Counties (2005)

- Top Ten Counties (2005)

- Transporting Hay to be Subject to New Regulations

- FDA:  Hay Farmers Clear of Records Law

- Hay Sampling

- Use of Feedstuffs by Livestock in the United States

 

JANUARY 2007 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- Hay Quality Makes a Difference

- Goats in Kentucky

- Kentucky Agricultural Economy

- Utilizing Sericea Lespedeza as a Goat Forage in Kentucky

 
 

2006

 

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DECEMBER 2006 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- FEED:  Biggest Cost Item

- Kentucky Hay - 2006

- Methods to Manage Soil Phosphorus Levels on Kentucky Poultry Farms

- Meat Goat Performance and Carcass Parameters when Finished on Orchardgrass, Red Clover, or Alfalfa Pastures

- The Case for Forage Legumes

 

NOVEMBER 2006 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- Cash Receipts Highlights

- Loss of a Legend

- Hay is in the Barn

- New Executive Secretary for AFGC

- Alfalfa's Makeover

- Effect of Sericea Lespedeza Hay on Gastrointestinal Nematode Infection in Goats

 

OCTOBER 2006 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- Roundup Ready Grazing Tolerant Alfalfa

- 26 Roundup Ready Alfalfa Varieties

- Hay Export Markets Benefit all Growers

- Prevent Machinery Fires

- Ethanol Growth Challenges Hay Markets

- Hay Production Up

 

SEPTEMBER 2006 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- Stockpile Production:  Does it ay to fertilize in fall given the high cost of nitrogen fertilizer?

- Can you Successfully "Thicken-Up" Old Alfalfa Stands?

- Fall Seeding Grasses

- Monitor Wet Hay to Prevent Fire

- Rake Design Doesn't Impact Hay Quality

 

AUGUST 2006 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- UK Robinson Station to Host College of Ag Field Day

- Kentucky Department of Agriculture - Forage Testing Program

- More Hay.....

- Guidelines for Successful Forage Establishment

 

JULY 2006 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- Determining Forage Moisture Content using a Microwave Oven

- Kentucky:  Did You Know

- Hay Storage Demonstration Farm Project Evaluating Impact of Indoor Storage

- Agrotain Reduces Ammonia Loss from Surface-Applied Urea

- Grazing Corn

 

JUNE 2006 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- Effect of Storage Method on Round Bale Hay Loss

- Kentucky Milk Production

- Average Prices Received by Farmers--(Dollars)

- Bioterrorism & Hay

- Reducing Broiler Litter Application Rates

- Measuring Variation in Alfalfa Yield and Stand

 

MAY 2006 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- Barren County Continued as Cattle Capital of Kentucky

- Storing Alfalfa as Round Bale Silage: Frequently Asked Questions

- Cowpea Aphid in Kentucky Alfalfa

- Disk vs. Sickle Cutterbar Mowers

- Organic Hay

 

APRIL 2006 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- Rooting Depth of Alfalfa

- Environmental & Economic Evaluation of Grass and Corn Based Production Systems

- Economics of Organic and Grazing Dairy Farms

 

MARCH 2006 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- Improved Alfalfa Varieties

- How are Pasture Quality, Soil Quality, and Soil Organic Carbon Content Linked?

- Common Red Clover

- Poultry Litter Rate Study in Tall Fescue

 

FEBRUARY 2006 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- Nitrogen Costs and the Value of Legumes

- It will soon be Calving Season

- Tall Fescue On-line Monograph Availability

- Comparative Lamb and Heifer Growth Rates

- Field Experience with Strip Grazing Standing Corn

- Free Nitrogen

 

JANUARY 2006 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- Forages at KCA

- Heart of America Grazing Conference

- 26th Kentucky Alfalfa Conference

- Selecting Varieties for Kentucky

 

 

2005

 

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DECEMBER 2005 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- Still Room for Improvement

- Effect of Maturity on Quality of Various Small Grains

- Effect of N Prices on Fertilization of Cool-Season Grasses

- Value and Amount of Nitrogen Fixed by Various Legumes

 

NOVEMBER 2005 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- How Sensitive is Alfalfa to Low Soil pH?

- Fertilizer Value in Hay

- Hay May Be Tight

- Consider Grazing Crop Residue

 

OCTOBER 2005 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- Alfalfa Hay for Horses: Myths and Realities

- Building Hay Storage Structures with Agriculture Development Board's Cost Share Program

- Late Fall Fertilization of Cool Season Grasses

 

SEPTEMBER 2005 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- Roundup Ready Alfalfa

- Economics of Grazing Stocker Cattle as a Sustainable Alternative to Row Crops

- Is It Too Late to Stockpile this Year?

 

AUGUST 2005 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- Hay/Barn Fires

- Remember to Stockpile Fescue Starting Now

- Grazing Corn: Impact of Harvest Date on Yield

 

JULY 2005 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- Using Poultry Litter on Pastures

- Hay Moisture Meters and More

- Does Fertilizer Harm Soil Microbes?

 

JUNE 2005 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- Maintaining Healthy Horse Pastures

- Toward Higher Quality Hay

- Harvest and Storage Method Affects Ergot Alkaloid Concentration in Tall Fescue

 

MAY 2005 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- Summary of Good Hay-Making Practices

- Does Fertilizer Harm Soil Microbes?

 

APRIL 2005 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- New Alfalfa Website

- Pennington Seed & AgResearch Announce Part Settlement of Tall Fescue Endophyte Patent Lawsuit

 

MARCH 2005 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- Tom Keene Joins UK Forage Team

- Roundup Ready Alfalfa

- Novel or Friendly (Nontoxic) Endophytes

- Keys to a Profitable Forage Program

 

FEBRUARY 2005 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- Alfalfa and Soybean Rust: Is There a Concern?

- Getting Ready for the Grazing Season

 

JANUARY 2005 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- Ray Smith Joins Our Kentucky Forage Team

- Storage Losses and Nutritive Value of Warm-Season Forages Conserved as Balage

 
     

2004

 

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DECEMBER 2004 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- Eleven Seasons of Pasture Productivity and Heifer Performance Under Rotational Grazing: Data from Wisconsin

- Hay Storage Update

 

NOVEMBER 2004 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- Effects of Tall Fescue Endophyte on Reproduction

- Calf Weaning Weights of Cattle Grazing Toxic or MaxQTM Tall Fescue Stands

 

OCTOBER 2004 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- Stockpiled Tall Fescue Quality

- Utilizing Poultry Litter in a Fertility Program for Orchardgrass Hayfields

 

SEPTEMBER 2004 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- Switchgrass and Horses

- Nitrogen Rate and Source Effects on the Yield and Nutritive Value of Stockpiled Tall Fescue

 

AUGUST 2004 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- Transition from Toxic Tall Fescue to Non-Toxic Novel Endophyte Tall Fescue

- Forage Production and Forage Mixture Complexity

 

JULY 2004 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- Management of Beef Cattle to Alleviate Fescue Toxicosis

- Comparison of Three Tall Fescues Containing Novel Endophytes for Stocker Cattle Weight Gain

 

JUNE 2004 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- Forage Species and Spatial Effects on the Dietary Intake of Goats

- Calibrating Seeders

 

MAY 2004 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- Red Meat Production in 2003

- Baling Forage Crops for Silage

 

APRIL 2004 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- Emergence and Survival of Legumes Seeded into Pastures

- Does Fertilizer Harm Soil Microbes?

 

MARCH 2004 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- Broomsedge in Pastures

- Extending the Grazing Season with Corn

 

FEBRUARY 2004 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- What is Quality Worth?

- Bermudagrass Update

 

JANUARY 2004 (pdf version)

Issue Highlights

- Kentucky Hay Testing Program

- NU Research: Feeding, Grazing GM Corn Doesn't Affect Livestock Performance

 
 

 

 

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