Forage Production and Management

Establishment

• Forage and Rangeland Restoration Reference Guide (PDF)
• Forage Establishment & Restoration: Post Flooding Concerns and Solutions
• Sod Seeding into Existing Forage Stands (PDF)
• Sod Seeding Manual: Seeding forages into existing stands using minimal tillage (PDF)
• Tips for Improving Forage Establishment Success

Feeding

• Backgrounding With Manitoba Forage (PDF)
• Extending Livestock Feed Supplies
• Feeding Fusarium-Contaminated Grain to Livestock
• Low Stress Livestock Handling (PDF)
• Management of Problem Feeds
• Perennial Ryegrass: Endophyte Feeding Concerns
• Stretching Feed when Supplies are Tight
• Sustainable Livestock Wintering: How Can it Work for You? (PDF)
• Endophytes in Perennial Ryegrass and Tall Fescue Straw
• Nitrates in Stressed Crops

Hay/Silage Production

• Ammoniation of Forages
• Baled Silage Production (PDF)
• Frost Damaged and Immature Corn Options
• Ensiling
  • An Introduction to Silage
  • Corn
  • Soybeans
  • Sunflowers
  • Canola
  • Sorghum-Sudan Grass
• Manitoba Green Gold Program
• The Basics of Marketing Cash Hay (PDF)
• Harvesting and Storage of Quality Hay and Silage
• Producing High Quality Dry Hay
• Producing High Quality Hay Best Practices (PDF)
• Salvaging Immature and Frosted Crops for Silage
• Tips for Tarping and Shedding Quality Cash Hay
• Using Preservatives and Drying Agents to Improve Hay Quality
• Corn Stover and Silage

Grazing & Pasture Management

Pasture

• Managing Forage Stands in a Dry and Cool Manitoba Spring
• Pasture Management
• Animal Unit Months, Stocking Rate and Carrying Capacity

Grazing Strategies

• Alfalfa is Not Bloat Safe After a Killing Frost
• Getting Started With Intensive Grazing
• Multi-Species Grazing
• Grazing Alfalfa With Horses
• Grazing Cattle on Corn (PDF)

Extending the Grazing Season

• The Basics and Benefits of Bale Grazing (PDF)
•  Guide to Extended Grazing (PDF)
• Livestock Wintering: Locating and Managing Your Site to Make it More Sustainable 
• Stockpiled Forages
• Winter Grazing Options (PDF)

Fencing 

• Everything You Need to Know About Electric Fencing

Pest Management

• Guide to Crop Protection

Insects

• Be on the Lookout for the Alfalfa Weevil
• European Corn Borer
• Grasshoppers
• Scouting for Insect Pests

Gophers

• Northern Pocket Gopher: Biology and Management (PDF)

Plant Diseases

• Disease and Deficiencies in Forages
• Downy Mildew
• Management of Diseases of Alfalfa Seed
• Scouting for Diseases

Weeds

• Integrated Management of Leafy Spurge
• Managing Kochia
• Weed Control in Forage Crops
• Weed Control in Pastures
• Scouting for Weeds

  Horse Hay

• Understanding Forage Quality and Winter Feeding of Horses
• Manitoba Horse Hay: Nutrition and Feeding

Seed Production

• Alfalfa Seed Production
• Birdsfoot Trefoil Seed Production
• Forage Seed Production in Manitoba
• Kentucky Bluegrass Seed Production
• Management of Diseases of Alfalfa Seed
• Sweet Clover Seed Production
• Timothy Seed Production

Soils and Fertility

• Fertilizing Alfalfa Forage
• Fertilizing Forage Stands
• Forage Crops: Fertilizer
• Forages for Improving Saline Soils
• Green Manure
• Legume Inoculation Cuts Fertilizer Need
• To Fertilize or Not to Fertilize: Soil Testing from the Bunker
• The Benefits of Including Forages in Your Crop Rotation

Species and Variety Selection

• Common Manitoba Hay Species
• Forage Adaptation and Comparison Guide (PDF)
• Selecting Grass Varieties
• Selecting Alfalfa Varieties for Manitoba

Alfalfa

• Fall Harvest Management of Alfalfa
• Getting Out of Alfalfa With Herbicides
• Managing Drought-Stressed Alfalfa
• Sod Seeding Alfalfa
• Winter Survival of Alfalfa

Annual Forage Crops

• Annual Crops: an Excellent Way to Increase Your Feeding Flexibility
• Annual Forage Crops for Manitoba
• Greenfeed and Green Manure Options

Water Management

•  Winter Watering Systems for Beef Cattle
• Snow as a Water Source for Wintering Cattle