Crops, Dairy, Livestock News

• Summer 2007
• Winter Spring 2008

Crop

• Delay corn harvest for maximum yield
• Management considerations for increased profitability

Pasture/Haycrops

• Do more alfalfa cuttings yield more income?
• Late winter frost seeding
• Forage harvest management - legumes
• Alfalfa hay harvest management
• The grazing calendar
• Increased profit from pasture management
• Alfalfa
• Birdsfoot Treifoil
• Red Clover
• White and Ladino Clover
• Kentucky Bluegrass
• Orchardgrass
• Reed Canarygrass
• Smooth Bromegrass
• Timothy

Dairy/Livestock

• On-farm methods for compositing livestock carcasses
• Bio-security - what's next?
• Buying feeds
• Future dairy farmers
• Watching for the signs
• What are you thinking about?

Nutrient Management

• Massachusetts Dairy Farm Survey
• Components of integrated crop management for field crops
• Soil sampling and testing
• Interpreting soil analysis results
• Guidelines to nutrient application on agronomic crops
• Farmyard manure
• Placing value in manure management
• Dairy manure applications to alfalfa
• Manure spreader calibration
• Nutrient inventory from manure
• Sampling dairy manure
• PSNT - Pre-sidedress Nitrogen Soil Test for field corn
• Cost saving with the pre-sidedress nitrogen soil test
• Determining nitrogen sufficiency in corn
• End-of-season corn stalk test
• Soil quality

Farm Safety

• Bio-security on the farm
• Silo gas hazards
• Tractor passengers are tractor 'accidents'