Suitable grass species and varieties can offer significant advantages when included in alfalfa-grass mixtures for dairy cows and milking goats as haylage, baleage or dry hay. These advantages include nutritional improvements in fibre digestibility, …

Alfalfa weevil can often be an issue in Ontario, particularly in south-western parts of the province. While outbreaks tend to be isolated, they can be severe and dramatically reduce forage yield and quality. Typically, alfalfa weevil do not reach …

A common question this time of year is “when is the best time to cut first-cut dairy haylage?” High quality, highly digestible forage is essential to balancing high producing dairy cow rations, and dairy farm profitability. Straight alfalfa …

Sudangrass and sorghum-sudangrass are warm-season annual grasses from the sorghum family. They are grown in the summer and have the potential to provide high yields of palatable, high quality forage when properly managed. Although rainfall is …

Alfalfa winterkill and severe winter injury are often potential concerns, that result in insufficient forage inventories and forage quality for the coming year. It is difficult to predict alfalfa winterkill, but some years there are more risk …

There are increasingly significant yield responses in Ontario when applying sulphur (S) to alfalfa and alfalfa-grass mixtures. Forage grasses also appear to have a yield response to adequate sulphur fertility. Consider sulphur in your forage …