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Memories, Kentucky Alfalfa Conference
Memories, Kentucky Alfalfa Conference
Kentucky Alfalfa and Stored Forage Conference
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Photo Highlights Of The 35th Kentucky Alfalfa Conference, Darold J. Akridge
Photo Highlights Of The 35th Kentucky Alfalfa Conference, Darold J. Akridge
Kentucky Alfalfa and Stored Forage Conference
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Farmer Panel--What Hay Quality Means To Me, Clayton Geralds, Ben Cox, John Mccoy, Dennis Wright, Minos Cox
Farmer Panel--What Hay Quality Means To Me, Clayton Geralds, Ben Cox, John Mccoy, Dennis Wright, Minos Cox
Kentucky Alfalfa and Stored Forage Conference
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Hay Quality: What Is It?, Garry D. Lacefield, Don Ball
Hay Quality: What Is It?, Garry D. Lacefield, Don Ball
Kentucky Alfalfa and Stored Forage Conference
Profitable livestock production almost always requires a forage program that will supply large quantities of adequate quality, homegrown feed. A major percentage of the feed units for beef (83%) and dairy cattle (61%) come from forages. In addition, forages supply an estimated 91%, 72%, 15% and 99% of the nutrients consumed by sheep and goats, horses, swine, and wildlife, respectively.
Alfalfa And The Environment, Don Ball
Alfalfa And The Environment, Don Ball
Kentucky Alfalfa and Stored Forage Conference
We live in a society in which many people don’t understand or appreciate agriculture as much as they really should. After all, only about 2% of the population of the United States is involved in agriculture, so most people don’t know much about it. Furthermore, most don’t spend much time thinking about it. Forage crops, including alfalfa, are especially under-appreciated because forage is not consumed directly by humans (alfalfa sprouts being a minor exception).
Red Meat, Our Health And Alfalfa--Separating Scientific Fact From Opinions, Policy, Politics, And Bureaucracy, Peter Ballerstedt
Red Meat, Our Health And Alfalfa--Separating Scientific Fact From Opinions, Policy, Politics, And Bureaucracy, Peter Ballerstedt
Kentucky Alfalfa and Stored Forage Conference
The general public is becoming increasingly aware of the failure of the official nutritional policy of United States and other countries. Books like Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health (Taubes, 2008), Why We Get Fat and What To Do About It (Taubes, 2011) and The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet (Teicholz, 2014) have exposed the disconnect between nutrition science and nutrition policy, and have told the story of how we’ve come to this point in history.
Grazing Alfalfa: Real Cost Of "Fear" Of Bloat, S. Ray Smith, Kenneth H. Burdine, Jeff Lehmkuhler
Grazing Alfalfa: Real Cost Of "Fear" Of Bloat, S. Ray Smith, Kenneth H. Burdine, Jeff Lehmkuhler
Kentucky Alfalfa and Stored Forage Conference
In the Southeast, including legumes like alfalfa and clover in pastures provides many advantages. It reduces the impact of fescue toxicosis, provides free nitrogen, and improves pasture quality leading to increased animal performance. Individual animal performance is greater on grass/legume pastures compared to performance on similar monoculture grass stands. Daily gains for steers grazing clover-fescue swards is improved compared to straight tall fescue pastures (Figure 1). Improved performance is partially due to greater forage intakes. This practice is sound management even though legume bloat is a risk to livestock. If one considers the number of cattle grazing pastures containing legumes …
What's Required To Break The "Beef Per Acre" Kentucky Record, Kenneth R. Johnson
What's Required To Break The "Beef Per Acre" Kentucky Record, Kenneth R. Johnson
Kentucky Alfalfa and Stored Forage Conference
As I approach the task that Garry assigned me, I ask the question, “Do I really want to attempt to produce 1400 or more pounds of beef per acre?” An easy answer is “yes,” but more likely “no.” Most farmers I know, full or part time have all they can do now and to reach record levels of anything requires much more time and management. I am going to attempt to discuss the steps I think that will be required to reach record breaking production. Higher gains are certainly possible. We know alfalfa can produce 8 to 10 tons of …
Alfalfa Is Our Family Farming Operation, Myron Ellis
Alfalfa Is Our Family Farming Operation, Myron Ellis
Kentucky Alfalfa and Stored Forage Conference
Ellis Family Farm is a 5th generation family farm located in Harrodsburg, KY. Currently we farm 1250 acres total of which 870 acres is owned and the remainder is leased. We buy and resale between 1500-1800 head of feeder cattle per year and have 100 head of brood cows. The cattle operation feed is completely supplied by the first cutting of our 580 acres of alfalfa and alfalfa grass mix hay. From the second cutting on, we produce small square bales of alfalfa for the horse market in four states. Our normal production of square bales ranges between 75,000 and …
Kentucky Alfalfa Conference Reflections After 35 Years, Garry D. Lacefield
Kentucky Alfalfa Conference Reflections After 35 Years, Garry D. Lacefield
Kentucky Alfalfa and Stored Forage Conference
This event today marks the 35th consecutive year we have come together for a full day’s conference featuring "Alfalfa - Queen of the Forages" as the theme and focal point. Only one other state (California) in the U.S. has such an annual event.
Foreword And Recipients Of Kentucky Alfalfa Awards [2015], Garry D. Lacefield, Christi L. Forsythe
Foreword And Recipients Of Kentucky Alfalfa Awards [2015], Garry D. Lacefield, Christi L. Forsythe
Kentucky Alfalfa and Stored Forage Conference
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