Frost seeding by broadcasting forage seed on frozen ground is a simple, low cost method of improving the yield and quality of older, thinning, “run out” past...

Serious About Sod - Spring 2019 1. The Effect of Water pH, Hardness and Purity on Pesticide Performance. 2. Improving Root Health in Sod 3. New Fertilizer Pr...

Serious About Sod - Fall 2019 1. The Advantages of a Late Fall Nitrogen Application on Nursery Sod. 2. In 2019, Why was Lifting and Issue in 2-Year-Old Sod? ...

With higher land costs, tighter forage inventories and stronger hay prices, increasing yield is becoming key to reducing our cost of producing forage. Three ...

Frost heaving can significantly damage alfalfa plants, leaving stands with much less yield potential. Plants may initially appear undamaged, but taproots are...

Options Discussed Seed A New Alfalfa Stand In the Rotation Cereals & Cereal-Pea Mixtures Early Stand Repair By No-tilling Evolution Italian Ryegrass & Clover...

There are increasingly significant yield responses in Ontario when applying sulphur (S) to alfalfa. In field trials, the yield response observed to applied S...

Frost seeding red clover into winter wheat as a cover crop has proven itself to have many agronomic benefits, including improving providing nitrogen (N), soi...

Alfalfa winterkill and severe winter injury are always a potential concern, resulting in insufficient forage inventories and forage quality for the coming ye...

A successful forage establishment is a uniform, weed free stand that will grow quickly and vigorously to provide high yields during that first year, and for ...

Suitable grass species and varieties can offer significant advantages when included in alfalfa-grass mixtures for dairy cows and milking goats as haylage, ba...

It’s springtime and we are anxious to get on the land and get our new forage seedings in the ground. There are a few common mistakes made that limit the succ...

Sudangrass and sorghum-sudangrass are warm-season annual grasses from the sorghum family. They are grown in the summer and have the potential to provide high...