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Brassica Crops
https://agcrops.osu.edu/specialization-areas/forages/brassica-crops
Forage brassicas are fast-growing annual crops that are highly productive and digestible. Crude protein levels range from 15% to 25% in the herbage and 8% to 15% in the roots, depending on nitrogen fertilization rate and weather conditions. The most commo ...
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Italian Ryegrass
https://agcrops.osu.edu/specialization-areas/forages/italian-ryegrass
Italian ryegrass (Lolium perenne L. spp. multiflorum (Lam.) Husnot) is generally annual or biennial in longevity, and can provide short-term high yields of high-quality forage. The Westerwold types do not have a vernalization (cold temperature) requiremen ...
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Annual Forage Crops
https://agcrops.osu.edu/specialization-areas/forages/annual-forage-crops-0
Annual forage crops can be used effectively in forage production systems. These crops can be used to provide supplemental feed when perennial forages are less productive; to provide emergency feed when perennial crops fail; to serve as interim crops betwe ...
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Summer-Annual Grasses
https://agcrops.osu.edu/specialization-areas/forages/summer-annual-grasses-0
These grasses grow rapidly in late spring and summer and when managed properly provide high-quality forage. They are well suited as supplemental forages during hot, dry periods when perennial cool-season forages are less productive. Because the need for e ...
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Summer-Annual Grasses
https://agcrops.osu.edu/specialization-areas/forages/summer-annual-grasses
These grasses grow rapidly in late spring and summer and when managed properly provide high-quality forage. They are well suited as supplemental forages during hot, dry periods when perennial cool-season forages are less productive. Because the need for e ...
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Preserving Forage as Hay and Silage
https://agcrops.osu.edu/specialization-areas/forages/preserving-forage-hay-and-silage
Good management practices are required for storing forage as either dry hay or as silage or balage (individually wrapped bales, in plastic tubes or chopped into silo bags). In general, putting up silage or haylage will result in less forage yield loss and ...
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Insect Pest Management
https://agcrops.osu.edu/specialization-areas/forages/insect-pest-management
Management of forage insect pests is important to achieve high yields of high-quality forage. The primary insect problems in Ohio are the alfalfa weevil and the potato leafhopper in alfalfa. The alfalfa weevil is primarily active in the spring. The potato ...
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Annual Forage Crops
https://agcrops.osu.edu/specialization-areas/forages/annual-forage-crops
Annual forage crops can be used effectively in forage production systems. These crops can be used to provide supplemental feed when perennial forages are less productive; to provide emergency feed when perennial crops fail; to serve as interim crops betwe ...
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Perennial Warm-Season Grasses
https://agcrops.osu.edu/specialization-areas/forages/perennial-warm-season-grasses
The native, perennial, warm-season grasses have the potential to produce good hay and pasture growth during the warm and dry mid-summer months. These grasses initiate growth in late April or early May and produce 65%–75% of their growth from mid-June to m ...
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Disease Management in Forages
https://agcrops.osu.edu/specialization-areas/forages/disease-management-forages
Diseases can negatively affect stand establishment, limit yields and hasten stand decline in established forage crops. Effects of disease on individual plants vary widely. Some diseases are lethal while others cause only stunting or leaf loss, reducing yi ...