New England Forage and Weed ID and Management Training Project

Note: This project was completed in 2016. The valuable resources produced are now being hosted by the Northeast Pasture Consortium

Forage Cutting and Harvest Management

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The following are materials and some links about forage harvest and cutting management. If you have additional materials, favorite websites or presentations that you have made pretaining to this, please send them to me and I'll post them.

Forage Cutting Managment
Cutting Management of Perennial Forage Crops: Presentation Presentation with notes (Un. of Vermont)
Forage Plant Response to Defoliation: Presentation Presentation with notes (PDP Webinar Topic)
Growing Grasses for High Quality Dairy Rations (USDA Dairy Forage Research Center)
Intensive Grass Management for Lactating Dairy Cows (Cornell University)
Cutting Management of Alfalfa, Red Clover and Birdsfoot Trefoil (Penn State)

Hay Management and Storage
Haymaking Primer (Un. of New Hampshire)
Hay Storage: Dry Matter Losses and Quality Changes (Miss. State)

Hay Crop Silage and Management
From Harvest to Feed: Understanding Silage Management (Penn State)

Northeast SARE is a regional program of the nationwide SARE which offers competitive grants to projects that explore and address key issues affecting the sustainability and future economic viability of agriculture. The program is authorized under Subtitle B of Title XVI of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990. It's wider mission is to advance, to the whole of American agriculture, innovations that improve profitability, stewardship, and quality of life by investing in groundbreaking research and education. For more information go to, http://www.nesare.org/