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| Forage Quality | Annual Forage | Corn Silage | Economics |

Forage Agronomy

• Agronomy Guide, Publication 811, Order this publication
• Forage Production Publication 30, Order this publication
• Pasture Production Publication 19
• Field Crop Production, Best Management Practices (Order No. BMP02) Order publication
• Nutrient Management (Best Management Practices) (order No. BMP05) Order this publication
• Streamside Grazing (Best Management Practices) (order No. BMP19) Order this publication
• Weekly Field Crop Reports
• Varieties and Species
  • Forage Variety Performance Report
  • Annual Species
  • Perennial Species
  • Mixture Selection
  • Variety Selection
  • Red Clover
  • Reed Canarygrass
• Alfalfa Winterkill Weather Factors
• Assessing Alfalfa Stands
• Alfalfa Stand Assessment
• Alfalfa Autotoxicity
• Cutting Management of Alfalfa
• Fertility Management
• Field Scouting and On-Farm Trials
• Forage Fertility, June 2003
• Frost Seeding to Improve Forage Stands, March 2007
• Managing Forages in Dry Years
• Managing the Effects of Wheel Traffic on Forage Yields
• Manure Application for Forages - An Economic Alternative, March 2007
• Manure Applied to Hay has Value, June 2008
• OMAFRA Fertilizer Recommendation Tables
• Predicting Alfalfa Quality Using PEAQ
• Soil Management and Fertilizer Use
• Soil Fertility Handbook (Publication 611)
• Summer Seeding Forages
• Tillage and Establishment
• Applying Manure To Forages
• Risk of Alfalfa Winterkill (Order No. 91-072)

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Forage Quality

• Alsike Clover Poisoning, Photosensitization or Photodermatitis in Horses
• Baled Haylage For Sheep
• Baleage Tips, July 2005
• Botulism in Horses and Haylage
• Determining Corn Silage Digestibility
• Ergot Alkaloid Toxicity in Horse Hay and Pasture
• Feeding Sheep Corn Silage
• Fibre Digestibility and Forage Quality
• Fine Stemmed Alfalfa Varieties?
• Forage & Feed Analysis
• Hay for Horses
• Haylage and Treated Hay for Horses
• Laboratories Equipped for Feed Testing
• Livestock Feed Terms Defined
• Take an Accurate Hay Sample
• The Fine Art of Forage Sampling
• Using and Feeding Round Bales to Horses
• Chewing Through Forage- Managing Your Feed
• Feeding Forages
• Let Them Eat Straw - Stretching Feed Supplies For Wintering Beef Cows
• Managing Lower Quality Forages
• The Disappearing Act - Efficiently Feeding Round Bales
• Molds and Mycotoxins - Effects of Moldy Feed and Mycotoxins on Cattle
• Preventing Mouldy Hay Using Propionic Acid
• Rain Damage to Hay, July 2008

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Harvest & Storage

• Barn Hay Drying (Order No. 88-110)
• Buchneri Inoculants to Improve Corn Silage Bunk Life
• Bunker Silo Management
• Concrete Tower Silo Maintenance and Repair
• Cutting, Conditioning & Raking For Faster Hay Drying
• Deterioration of Concrete Tower Silos
• Dry Hay
• Forage Quality and Harvest Timing
• Guidelines For Hay Storage In Ontario
• Haylage & Corn Silage
• Harvesting and Storing Large Bale Hay (Order No. 01-073)
• Harvesting Corn Silage at the Right Moisture (Order No. 07-047)
• Hazardous Gases (Order No. 04-087)
• Horse Hay As A Cash Crop?
• How to Handle Seepage From Farm Silos
• Maintaining Quality in Large Bale Silage (Order No. 98-069)
• Net Wrap or Twine? Sept 2006
• Packing & Covering Bunker Silos, June 2003
• Preventing Mouldy Hay Using Propionic Acid
• Recycling Farm Plastic Films
• Silo and Hay Mow Fires on Your Farm (Order No. 93-025)
• Spontaneous Combustion and Hay Fires
• The Fine Art of Forage Sampling
• Tips for Making Marketable Hay Without Rain-Damage or Mould, Sept 2008
• Tower Silo Capacities (Order No. 88-033)
• Wide Swath Haylage, June 2006

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Pasture

• Pasture Production Publication 19 now online
  • Chapter 1: Pastures
  • Chapter 2: Establishing Pastures
  • Chapter 3: Pasture Improvement
  • Chapter 4: Grazing Management
  • Chapter 5: Fencing Management
  • Chapter 6: Water Management on Pastures
  • Chapter 7: Animal Health Problems
  • Chapter 8: Pasture Costs and Production Charts
  • Chapter 9: Glossary
• Annual Forages for Grazing or Stored Feed, March 2005
• Conserving Pasture Production During a Drought
• Fall Pasture Fertility Management After a Drought
• Fall Pasture Management Following A Dry Summer, Sept 2007
• Fall Pasture Management Tips, September 2004
• Farm Fencing Systems
• Fencing of Watercourses To Control Erosion
• Finding Extra Pasture, March 2005
• Forage Species Selection for Pasture, March 2004
• Frost Seeding - A Cheaper Alternative (Order No. 98-071)
• Getting More Out of Grass Hay and Pastures, March 2004
• Goat Pasture Seeding Recommendations
• Grazing Corn Stover, Sept 2006
• Grazing Mentorship Program, Sept 2007
• Kura Clover: A New Pasture Legume for Ontario? (Order No. 98-049)
• Livestock Access to Watercourses
• Managing Horse Pastures
• Meeting Water Needs for Winter Grazing, November 2004
• Weed Control in Horse Pastures
• Pasture Boosters & Supporters, March 2008
• Pasture Grasses Identified (Order No. 06-095)
• Pasture Legumes Identified (Order No. 04-057)
• Pasture Growth and Quality, June 2006
• Pasture Records?
• Poisoning of Horses by Plants
• Poisoning of Livestock by Plants (Order No. 87-016)
• Recording Pasture Events, June 2007
• Stockpiled Pasture:
  • Stockpiling Perennial Forages for Fall and Winter Grazing (Order No. 99-009)
  • Effect of Management System and Nitrogen Application
  • Lamb Performance On Two Stockpiling Systems
  • Effect of Harvest Date on the Yield and Quality of Stockpiled Grass
  • Effect of Stockpile Grazing in Fall on Forage Production the Following Season
  • 'Twas The Night Before Christmas … And The Cattle Were Grazing
• Streamside Grazing (Best Management Practices) (order No. BMP19) Order this publication
• Turn Corn Stover to Low-cost Pasture
• Pasture Walk Groups
• Electric Fence- Foundation of a Workable Grazing System
• Looking for Extra Forage
• Profiting from Pasture
• Never Cry Wolf - Protect your herd from predators!
• Flea Beetle Control in Forage Turnips
• Planning for the Coming Grazing Season
• Understanding Pasture Gains in a Wet Year, Sept 2008
• Winter Feeding Options from a Pasture Perspective, Nov 2007

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Corn Silage

• Pricing Corn Silage in 2007
• Determining Corn Silage Digestibility
• Pricing Corn Silage in 2005, Sept 2005
• Drought Damaged Corn Silage
• Beware of Nitrates in Whole Plant Corn for Green Chop Corn or Silage
• Moisture Testing Method Affects Accuracy
• Selecting Corn Silage Hybrids
• Frost & Immature Corn Silage
• Corn Silage in Beef Production
• Feeding Sheep Corn Silage
• Boosting the Protein Content of Corn Silage
• Using Urea and Anhydrous Ammonia on Corn Silage
• Idea For Coping With Dry Corn Silage
• Buchneri Inoculants to Improve Corn Silage Bunk Life
• Corn Planting Following Early Hay Harvests

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Annual Forage

• Fall Rye for Silage or Grazing
• Annual Ryegrass for Stored Feed and Pasture (Order No. 98-039)
• Forages - Making the Most With What’s Left! (Order No. 98-047)
• Forage Pearl Millet (Order No. 98-045)
• Forage Production From Spring Cereals and Cereal-Pea Mixtures (Order No. 98-041)
• Forage Sorghum-Sudan Grass (Order No. 98-043)
• Harvesting the Cereal Nurse Crop as Silage, June 2006
• Soybeans as a Forage Crop
• Cover Crops
• Cover Crop Seed Suppliers

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Insects, Diseases and Weeds

• Field Crop Protection Guide (Publication 812)
  • Field Crop Protection Guide Supplement 2008 (Publication 812S)
  • Integrated Pest Management Options: Forages
• Scouting Calendar
• Symptoms in the Field
• Other Problems

Insects

• Alfalfa Snout Beetle
  • Alfalfa Snout Beetle (Order No. 94-025)
• Alfalfa Blotch Leafminer
• Alfalfa Weevil
• Alfalfa Weevil Active, May 2008
• Alfalfa Weevil Activity, May 2008
• True Armyworm
• Fall Armyworm
• European Skipper
• Grasshoppers
• Potato Leafhopper
  • Scout Alfalfa for Potato Leafhoppers, June 2006
  • Is that leafhopper or boron deficiency in my alfalfa? Aug 2005
• Trefoil Seed Calcid (Order No. 91-016)
• Insect Factsheets & Infosheets
• Grubs in Pasture and Hay Fields, Nov 2007
• Grubs Damage Very Common this Spring, May 2008

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Diseases

• Anthracnose
• Aphanomyces Root Rot
  • Aphanomyces Root Rot in Alfalfa, Nov 2007
• Bacterial Wilt
• Brown Root Rot of Alfalfa in Ontario, Nov 2007
• Disease Factsheets & Infosheets
• Leaf Spot
• Other Crown and Root Rots
• Phytophthora Root Rot
• Pythium Seed Rot
• Verticillium Wilt
  • Verticillium Wilt of Alfalfa (Order No. 88-036)

Weeds

• Guide to Weed Control (Publication 75 - Order No. 75)
  • Chapter 10 - Forage Crops
  • Herbicide Ratings Tables (Table 10-1) (PDF file - 62 kb)
• Fowl Meadow Grass (Poa Palustris) Control in an Established Alfalfa and Timothy Crop, March 2008
• Newsletter Article Index In Weed Management in Forages
• Ontario Weeds - Weed Gallery
• Poisonous Plant Quiz - interactive
• Weed Control
• Weed Control in Horse Pastures
• Weed Factsheets & Infosheets
• Weed Quiz - interactive

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Economics

• CAIS - Canadian Agricultural Income Stabilization Program
• Guide To Custom Farmwork and Short-Term Equipment Rental
• 2008 Field Crop Budgets (Publication 60)
• Ontario Enterprise Budgets 2008
  • Alfalfa Hay (xls) (html)
  • Corn Silage (xls) or (html)
• Grass Stocker (Cattle) Worksheet
• Hay Cost of Production Worksheet
• Pasture Lease Agreements (Order No. 03-091)
• Pasture Lease (Order No. 03-089)
• Pricing Standing Hay
• Pricing Standing Hay, June 2007

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Newsletters

• Crop-Pest Ontario
• CropTalk
• Newsletter Articles for Weed Management in Forages
• Other Newsletters Online (external link list)
  • Ontario Soil & Crop Association

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External Forage Links

• Ontario Forage Crops Committee
• Ontario Forage Council
• Ontario Hay Producers Association
• Canadian Hay Association
• Alfalfa Council
• American Forage & Grassland Council
• Canadian Seed Growers Association
• Canadian Seed Trade Association
• Great Lakes Grazing Network
• Alberta Forage Council
• Manitoba Forage Council
• Information for the Forage Beef Industry

Resources and Services

• Agriculture Development Advisory Staff
• Accredited Soil Testing Labs
• Crop and Pest Updates
• Sources of Crop Inputs
  • Cover Crop Seed Suppliers
  • Sources of Agricultural Limestone For Ontario

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Stats and Facts

• Ontario Field Crops Research & Services Committee (OFCRSC)
  • State of the Industry Report
• Ontario Field Crops Statistics

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Crops Updates

• CropPest Ontario
• Crop and Pest Updates
  • Subscribe to OMAFRA Podcasts
  • Subscribe to Agriphone Messages
• Crops Updates (Cropline) 1-888-449-0937
• Ontario Field Crop Report
• Sound Advice - Audio Crop Updates
• What's Hot?- Forages

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