Items Tagged with 'nitrates'
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Weedy alfalfa stands can reduce nutritional value and forage quality as well as have the potential to cause real livestock health concerns through nitrates or other toxins.
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Forage sampling and analysis: Can we overemphasize its importance?
As fall and winter approach, producers should know what they expect from their forage. This will allow for more accurate testing and profitable feeding to cattle.
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High-ammonia forages: Effect on cattle
Taking precautions at harvest, controlling the amount of ammonia in a diet and monitoring cattle to determine if they are being fed too much ammonia can help to manage the forage you have.
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Win the corn silage harvest
The need-to-know numbers and best practices for harvesting corn silage.
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The opportunities and challenges of grazing sudangrass and sorghum-sudan hybrids
Producers interested in grazing sudangrass and sorghum-sudan hybrids should be aware of its potential risks and how to mitigate them.
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Managing the unknowns for forage safety
Management practices such as spreading out nitrogen applications, irrigation and seed selection for low prussic acid can all reduce risk.
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Elevate your manure management to align with 2023’s input projections
The goal of nutrient management is to adequately supply soils and plants with the nutrients necessary to produce food, forage, fiber and cover while minimizing the transport of nutrients to ground and surface waters.
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Forage management when facing drought conditions
Proper herd management in times of drought requires a sound plan that focuses on both short- and long-term needs of an operation.
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