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measuring forage crop height with a ruler

Green Gold Report looks at choosing your optimum cutting time for forage

Forage and grassland conditions for Central and Eastern Manitoba

By Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association May 19, 2015

This is the second release for the Green Gold program assessing forage conditions in Manitoba. Reports will be issued from various areas of the Province (Eastern, Central, Interlake, and Western) in the weeks and months ahead. The reports below are the most recent forage conditions for Eastern and Central Manitoba. Click on the applicable link below: Green

Forages, Local news

Green Gold Report forage conditions see light frost damage on alfalfa

Forage and grassland conditions for Eastern Manitoba as of May 11, 2015

By Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association May 13, 2015

This is the first release for the Green Gold program assessing forage conditions in Manitoba. Reports will be issued from various areas of the Province (Eastern, Central, Interlake, and Western) in the weeks and months ahead. Click here to view or download the full report. For more information email John McGregor, Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association Extension

Crops, Local news

Program aims for best time to take first alfalfa cut

Twice weekly reports will be emailed out, including in the Manitoba Co-operator’s Daily News

By Allan Dawson May 12, 2015

Determining the optimum time to take the first cut of alfalfa is as simple as subscribing to an email, thanks to the Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association’s (MFGA) Green Gold Program. Starting in mid-May, 15 to 20 alfalfa fields across Manitoba will be sampled twice a week and the relative feed value (RFV) calculated by

From left: Agriculture Minister Ron Kostyshyn along with Canadian Cattlemen’s Association Ramona Byth, Manitoba Beef Producers president Heinz Reimer and Brandon-Souris MP Larry Maguire announced funding for a new research project geared toward sustainable beef production.

Beef cattle, Livestock

Governments invest in sustainable beef production research

Several organizations will partner to develop two demonstration sites near Brandon

By Jennifer Paige February 13, 2015

The federal and provincial governments have announced $3.1 million in support over three years for applied research on sustainable beef production at two sites near Brandon. Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development Minister Ron Kostyshyn and Brandon-Souris MP Larry Maguire were on hand at the Manitoba Beef Producers annual general meeting here last week to

Brian Harper says he’s doubled the carrying capacity of his pastures by  using a high stock density system.

Forages, Livestock

Get in line and move on — grazing an acre at a time

Switching to a high stock density system with 128 paddocks instead of 16 

By Duncan Morrison September 17, 2014

I call it my ‘big red swather,’” Brian Harper told a group of cattle producers visiting his farm near here last August. Harper smiled and as if on cue, 63,550 lbs. of his herd of Shaver Beefblend/Lincoln Red cattle started munching their way down one of his field’s narrow one-acre grazing paddocks. “Up to 2013,

Although late, Manitoba’s first-cut hay is mostly up now and yielded well outside of the flood area, says John McGregor of the Manitoba Forage and Hayland Association. This field was being baled near Miami July 29. photo: allan dawson

Dairy cattle, Forages, Livestock

First-cut hay late, but plentiful in unflooded areas

Hay will be scarce and costly in flooded areas, but that could be offset by producers reducing cow herds

By Allan Dawson August 8, 2014

Manitoba’s first-cut hay crop, while late, is yielding average to above average in areas not hit by excessive moisture or flooding, says John McGregor of the Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association. “There’s a lot there, but they (beef farmers) don’t just rely on one cut,” McGregor said in an interview July 30. “They need to

Forages, News

Drying time can be reduced

With wet weather wreaking havoc in many parts of the province,  some producers are cutting their forage when the weather lets them, not when it’s optimal quality

By Shannon VanRaes July 23, 2014

Farmers use a variety of methods to determine when alfalfa is ready for the first cut of the year, but this season a lot of those methods went straight out the window. “So how many of you are just cutting when it’s dry enough to get on the field?” Dan Undersander, an extension and forage

Forages

Alfalfa weevils starting to cause problems

By Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association June 26, 2014

Alfalfa Weevils posed a serious problem for producers in the province last year, and now the insect is starting to be seen south of Steinbach. “On Tuesday at the Provincial Hay and Silage Day in Steinbach, I was looking in the demo field near Fredensfeld, and there was a lot of damage to the upper

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Tag Archives Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association

Green Gold Report looks at choosing your optimum cutting time for forage

Green Gold Report forage conditions see light frost damage on alfalfa

Program aims for best time to take first alfalfa cut

Governments invest in sustainable beef production research

Get in line and move on — grazing an acre at a time

First-cut hay late, but plentiful in unflooded areas

Drying time can be reduced

Alfalfa weevils starting to cause problems

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