Control Boosfs Farm Credit Directors Tour A^ way Forage, Pasture Returns ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF AGRONOMY With today’s energy crisis, inflation, high grain prices, and the talk of grass fattened cattle, forage and pasture crops may well be the sleepng giants of modem agriculture. In Mississippi, the value of livestock and their products has increased tenfold in the last twenty years. We have made good progress but the challenge of the future looks ever more promising. For example, only 20 percent of our total pastures (5 million acres) are planted to improved grasses and legumes. In addition, olny 10 percent atre fertilized and less than 5 percent receive some form of weed control. These trends can be ap plied equally as well to other states in the southeast or the nation. Harlow Hodgson of the USDA has reported that ATTENTION CORN GROWERS ADD SPRAY ADJUVANT TO YOUR ATRAZINE SOLUTION nu SPRAY ADJUVANT increases the herbicide’s effectiveness on weeds. 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Forages produced on these lands vary tremendously in kind, yield, and quality, but they all have one thing in common; little or no value until market through livestock. The value of forages produced in the U. S. has been estimated to almost equal the combined cash receipts from soybeans, wheat, cotton, tabacco and sorghum. In addition, forages add tremendous value in erosion control, beautification, and water conservation. Current forage research programs across the country are stressing the develop ment of packages of technology for the livestock producer. As these soil plant-animal forage systems Know Tml As a portion of their annual field trip, members of the Board of Directors of the Farm Credit Banks of Baltimore toured the Agway Distribution Center near Elizabethtown on Monday, April 7. Directors and guests are from left (front row) Paul Nay, George Steele, Art Cochran and Ed Hartnett. are developed and adopted in on-the-farm situations, producers are indicating that a practical and economical method of weed control is essential to the success of the pasture systems. These suggestions are futher strengthened when we study the results in Table 1. These data represent the average of several pasture demonstrations located throughout Mississippi. One readily sees that a com bination of improved forage varieties, good management, and a sound weed control program has l allowed stocking rates to be' increased by 3 times and beef production to be in- 1 creased by 4 times over the typical pasture situation. Another often overlooked concept in a pasture weed control program is that it takes just as much or more fertilizer to grow a pound of weeds as it does to produce a pound of desirable forage. Table 2 shows the nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium content of some troublesome pasture weeds such as pigweed, smartweed, and ragweed. These weeds ac cumulate approximately twice as much nitrogen, 1.6 times as much phosphorus, and 3.5 times as much potassium as a desirable forage plant such as corn. In ft®’xloo’iS=l4’x22 ONLY $1.55 sq. ft. (\ LIST PRICE $8,400 LESS FACTORY CASH REBATE SI2OO |l NOW $7,200. , ' * FOB PLANT /j AUCTION SERVICE MIRACLE SPAN STEEL BUILDINGS CAINSDALE FARM SERVICE DRYING & STORAGE SYSTEMS TROJAN SEED CORN IVAN R. YOST addition to reducing yields of desirable forage plants by competing for nutrients, accumulation of nutrients such as nitrogen can result in losses of livestock from nitrate poisoning. These two factors alone will more than justify a sound chemical weed control program. Let’s consider that it takes approximately 80 pounds of a high quality forage such as ryegrass to produce the one pound T-bone steak! Abandon the weed control program in your pastures and fencerows, and the punds of weed infested forage required to produce the same steak may be 3 times as large. Many livestock producers have suggested that the biggest problems facing most pasture weed control programs are finding time to spray because versified farming operations such as cotton, soybeans, and livestock, and increasing weed pressures resulting from using only 2,4-D m many pasture weed control programs. Recent development of products such as Banvel and Weedmaster (combination of Banvel and 2,4-D) has made a tremendous impact of the potential of pasture weed control in many regions. These products have the ability to control most 2,4-D resistant weeds 215-593-5326 Ro#l CHRISTIANA, PA 17509 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 12,1975 (Middle row) Miguel A. Pons, Jack R. Cobb, William Dickinson, Harold Bailey, Hugh Dailey and E. G. Fouse. (Back row) Bill Jackson, Bill Collins, Dan Weybright, Carl Brown, J. W. Korman and Ervin Jordie. that have become serious posts in recent years. In addition, release of desirable species and chemical changes within the plants indicate that the improved forage quality would nav for the cost of using Banvel or Weedmaster in most pasture weed control programs. When new products such as Banvel and Weedmaster are intergrated into pasture weed control programs, total weed control in a diversified operation becomes much closer to being a reality rather than a concept. Try A Classified Ad It Pays! Want to Find a New Recipe? Read Home on the Range, SUDS custom designed feeding system Choose from available options to fit your needs Retain the nutritional value of the feeds you ensile Famous VIBRA-COR staves provide additional strength and insulation Bottom unloading or top unloading systems available ,Largest selling concrete stave sues in the world Leasing plans available Madison Silos Division Otiice, P.O. 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