1072 - Forages | ||
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1072.7) | 19 |
Number of producers who planted or started using any alternative forage for grazing |
1072.5) | 18 |
Number of producers who used temporary fencing |
1072.4) | 83 |
Number of producers who developed or implemented a grazing plan |
1072.3) | 5 |
Number of producers who used Extension recommendations to improve quality of haylage/silage storage |
1072.2) | 83 |
Number of people who made decisions based on Extension research including interseeding clover/legume, using cover crops and/or alternate forage species |
1072.1) | 212 |
Number of people who gained knowledge of forage production, management and/or profitability which could include species, best management practices for species, forage harvest and storage, pasture renovation |
1072.6) | 3 |
Number of producers who conducted on-farm demonstrations or applied research trials |
Author: Matthew Chadwick
Major Program: Forages
This past August Calloway County extension assisted state specialist, state NRCS and conservation district staff along with several industry representatives in hosting a multi-state regional field day. The event was very successful on a programmatic scale as we had over 100 participants present, due to the layout of the farm we were able to divide them into small groups and space them out to limit exposure. On the county level the successes were even greater than attendance numbers. First, we we