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Managing Roundup Ready Canola in Corn

Corn acreage in the Peace River Region for livestock feed has steadily increased over the past number of years. Most of the corn seeded is

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Annual Crop Mixtures for Beef Swath Grazing and Dairy Silage

Swath grazing is a management practice that can be used to extend the grazing season and to reduce feed, labor and manure handling costs

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Annual & Italian Ryegrass Variety Trial For Forage and Re-Growth Potential

Annual and Italian ryegrasses are easier to establish. Producers ask many questions about annual and Italian ryegrass varieties.

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Demonstration of Cover Crop Types as Mono-crops for Forage Yield and Nutritional Value

Annual crops for forages can be used to provide an additional source of hay, silage or pasture when perennial forage crops are in short

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Forage DM Yield and Nutritional Value of Oat Varieties Harvested at 3 Stages of Maturity

Producers in Alberta harvest significant acreage of annual crops for greenfeed and silage every year.

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Regional Silage Variety Trials: Pulse Mixtures (Pea-Cereal Mixtures)

The growing of two crops simultaneously on the same field, particularly growing of legumes with cereals is known to offer scope

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Triticale Varieties for Swath Grazing

Swath grazing is one of the commonly used methods in the Peace to extend the field grazing season. Swath grazing eliminates the cost and

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Regional Silage Variety Trials: Spring Triticale Varieties for Silage

Triticale is a cross of wheat and rye. Triticale is a cool season cover crop. Spring triticale provides an excellent high yielding

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Regional Silage Variety Trials: Oat Varieties

Oat is the most popular cool-season cereal crop grown for forage and has become a reliable source of conserved forage for over-wintering

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Regional Silage Variety Trials: Barley Varieties

The Regional Silage Variety Trials (RSVTs) are an important source of information for livestock forage based production regarding the forage

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On-farm Demonstration of Cocktail Mixtures

Cover crops (CCs) and their mixtures (cocktail mixtures) are an important tool that producers can use to generate multiple benefits

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Multi-species Cover Crop Mixtures (Cocktails) for Silage

Interest in the potential for a multispecies cover crop (CC) blend for silage, swath grazing and greenfeed has been growing amongst beef

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Testing of 14 Soybean Varieties for forage

Soybean plants may be grazed or harvested from the flowering stage to near maturity for use as high-quality hay. Soybeans may also be grown

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Managing Roundup Ready Canola in Corn

Corn acreage in the Peace River Region for livestock feed has steadily increased over the past number of years. Most of the corn

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On-farm corn trials for Grazing or Silage

In parts of the Peace, the practice of extended winter grazing with standing forage corn is continuing to gain more popularity among produce

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Corn Seeding Rates Trial

Plant population refers to the number of plants per acre; planting or seeding rate refers to the number of seeds planted per acre. Optimum

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Testing of some Wheat & Triticale varieties for Greenfeed & Silage - Regional Silage Variety Trial

The RSVTs help to provide information with regard to the quantity and quality of annual crops cut for green-feed and silage.

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Testing of Oat Varieties for Greenfeed and Silage - Regional Silage Variety Trial (RSVT) 2015

In Alberta, oats have become a reliable source of conserved forage for over-wintering beef cattle.

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Testing of Barley Varieties for Greenfeed and Silage - Regional Silage Variety Trial (RSVT) 2015

To identify barley varieties that have superior forage production in the Peace, PCBFA took part in the Regional Variety Testing program

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Forage Quality of Monoculture Cover Crops Tested in Fairview

Usually we think of cover crops in terms of reducing soil erosion and adding organic matter to the soil – but they can do much more.

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