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    Peace Common Oat & Barley Varieties Versus Soft White Wheat Varieties for Silage

    Peace Common Oat & Barley Varieties Versus Soft White Wheat Varieties for Silage

    Winter feed costs typically represent the largest portion of cow/calf expenses. In the Peace, oats and barley are the two most commonly use
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    Regional Silage Variety Trials: 4. Pea-Cereal Mixtures

    Regional Silage Variety Trials: 4. Pea-Cereal Mixtures

    Planting and growing two crops simultaneously on the same field, particularly growing of legumes with cereals, is known to offer scope for
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    Regional Silage Variety Trials: 2. Oat Varieties

    Regional Silage Variety Trials: 2. Oat Varieties

    In the Peace Country, oats have become a reliable source of conserved forage for over-wintering beef cattle. There is a need for continued l
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    Regional Silage Variety Trials: 1. Barley Varieties

    Regional Silage Variety Trials: 1. Barley Varieties

    According to the Alberta Agriculture & Forestry publication “Barley Production in Alberta”, of the major cereal crops, barley is the most se
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    Determining Optimum Nitrogen Rates for Corn

    Determining Optimum Nitrogen Rates for Corn

    One of the most costly and important inputs in corn production is nitrogen fertilizer. The objective of this project is to help develop
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    Regional Silage Variety Trials: Pulse Mixtures (Pea-Cereal Mixtures)

    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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    Regional Silage Variety Trials: Oat Varieties

    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

    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

    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

    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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    Evaluation of 23 Low Heat Unit Corn Hybrids for Forage

    Evaluation of 23 Low Heat Unit Corn Hybrids for Forage

    An important focus by PCBFA has been reducing feed costs by examining different options for extending the grazing season in the Peace.
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    Testing of some Wheat & Triticale varieties for Greenfeed & Silage - Regional Silage Variety Trial

    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

    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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    Highlights of On-Farm Test Plots of Some Annuals for Cover Crop Cocktail Mixtures

    Highlights of On-Farm Test Plots of Some Annuals for Cover Crop Cocktail Mixtures

    A series of workshops on cover cropping put on by PCBFA has shown that the advantages of integrating cover cropping systems into the forage
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    Demonstration of Cover Crop Mixtures for Grain and Livestock Grazing

    Demonstration of Cover Crop Mixtures for Grain and Livestock Grazing

    Soil conservation, nutrient sequestration, weed suppression, improved soil health, and optimizing grain and forage production, among others,
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    Forage Type Barley Varieties for Greenfeed and Silage: Yield and Quality

    Forage Type Barley Varieties for Greenfeed and Silage: Yield and Quality

    In 2014, PCBFA took part in the Regional Variety Testing program (Regional Silage Variety Trials (RSVT). The program includes testing of new
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    Corn for Silage Grazing & Silage Production

    As an annual, it can be grazed successfully during the fall and winter to extend the grazing season, and thereby reducing feed cost per head
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    A Comparison of Selected Forage Type Cereal Crops for Forage Yield & Quality

    A Comparison of Selected Forage Type Cereal Crops for Forage Yield & Quality

    Research Coordinator: Dr. Akim Omokanye Location: Fairview Research Farm (NW-5-82-03-W6) From: Peace Country Beef & Forage Association...
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    2013 Regional Silage Variety Trials

    2013 Regional Silage Variety Trials

    Research Coordinator: Dr. Akim Omokanye Location: Fairview Research Farm (NW-5-83-02-W6) From: Peace Country Beef & Forage Association...
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