Forage
COLUMBIA, Mo.
Research is "badly needed"
to improve forage quality, a
nationally prominent animal
-scientist said here earlier
this year at the annual
meeting of the American
Forage and Grassland
Council.
Noting that high-quality
forage is usually “the lowest
cost source of energy for
dairy and beef cattle,” J.T.
Reid cited four areas that
need research attention:
- Ways to improve the rate
>f consumption and net
■nergy concentration.
Improving forage
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VITAMIN LOSS ENERGY LOSS. .. .SEEPAGE.’.. .DIGESTIBLE PROTEIN LOSS
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producli... per acre at a
minimal cost of energy.
- improving culture,
harvesting, preservation,
storage, processing and
feeding.
-Developing technology to
put greater reliance on
grazing forages.
Reid, of Cornell Univer
sity’s Animal Science
Department, told experts
attending the American
Forage and Grasslands
Council meetings that
forages would be very im
portant to future animal
diets because of the energy
crisis.
if
TOO WET
RESULTS ?
Energy Loss - Vitamin Loss - Digestible Protein Loss
Also Loss of Silo Capacity !
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Aldus R. Kin(
RDI Box 67A
Atglen PA 19310
Phone 215 593 5952
He noted that forages
produce a loss expensive
protein than that provided
by any other source.
legumes, for example,
produce their own nitrogen,
thus saving on fertilizer
costs to the farmer.
Also, perennial forages
usually tend to be replanted
less than once every four
years, while corn and
soybeans can be harvested
only one time for each
planting. Thus,” said Reid,
the energy cost of tillage,
seeding and cultivation of
forage crops is considerably
less than that of grains. ”
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Phone 215 593 6143
TOO DRY - LEAF LOSS
NG Allows You To Mow
In The Morning -•
■v iii m i;i .1 imp'
in i;r i/'iig efficiency.
betciUM. forages are har
vested .by animals lather
than by fuel-driven
machinery This makes
pastures the most efficient
source of digestable energy
among the forages."
Reid and about 150 other
members of the American
Forage and Grassland
council devoted three days to
the discussion of how far
farmers could go with
forages to increase meat and
milk production. On Wed
nesday morning, they toured
the University of Missourl-
Lehieh & Northampton Co
Thomas Heist
Mam Street
Alburtis PA 18101
Phone 215 965 5124
South Central Penna
James L. Yoder
Regional Manager
250 Edwards Ave
Chambersburg PA 17201
Call Collect 717 264 9321
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday. April 30,1977
Coliunbie’s research facility.
Then they installed as their
president A.G. (Jerry)
Matches, USDA Agricultural
Research Service
agronomist at UMC.
Reid, who gave the AFGC
keynote address, said the
mam limitation of all-forage
diets even at today’s
highest quality, is that
cattle cannot consume
enough energy to produce
milk or meat at a high rate of
output."
However, he was op
timistic that research could
“make it possible for
ruminants to obtain a higher
proportion of their nutrients
from forages than they do
now.”
He noted, for example.
Cherry industrymen
elect board members
WASHINTON, D.C. -
Appointment of four
members and their alter
nates to the Cherry Ad
ministrative Board was
announced by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture,
recently. This board
operates under a federal
marketing order for red tart
cherries grown in Michigan,
New York, Wisconsin, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Virginia,
West Virginia, - and
Maryland.
Malvm McGaha, chief of
the fruit branch of USDA’s
agricultural marketing
service (AMS), said a major
function of the board is to
analyze supply and demand
conditions and to recom
mend to USDA the per cent
of the crop that may be
marketed at any time and
the per cent that should be
held in reserve under the
marketing order during a
season. This helps to
stabilize supplies and to
prevent market shortages
and gluts.
The board consists of six
grower members, six
handler members, and a
non-voting chairman. The
marketing order specifies a
that beef cattle may. be
fattened as effectively an all
forage diet as on a convential
high-grain diet.
“It will usually take these
animals 30 to 300 days longer
to reach slaughter weight,
depending on the quality of
the forage and whether it is
finely ground and pelleted.
But there seems to be little
doubt that forage-finished
cattle are acceptable to the
consumer.”
He cited reports from six
experiment stations which
found that such charac
teristics as tenderness,
juiciness, flavor, “eating
quality” and cooking losses
were“equal to or better in
forage-finished cattle than in
grain-finished cattle.”
three-year term of office,
with terms of about one-third
of the members expiring
each year.
Two New York growers
were named to represent
other growers on the board.
Those two individuals are:
Ronald R. Orbaker,
Williamson, N.Y., as
member, and Francis D.
Kirby, Albion, N.Y. as
alternate.
For further information on
the marketing order con
tact: Malvin McGaha,
USDA-AMS, Room 2532
South, Washington, DC
20250; or Delbert
Rasmussen, manager,
cherry administrative
board, Box 639, Watervhet,
Mich. 49098.
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The National Society for
the Prevention of Blindness
urges that appropriate
chemical type safety goggles
with hooded vents and a rim
that fits snugly around the
eye area be worn at all times
when working with
anhydrous ammonia to
prevent eye damage from
this potentially' hazardous
substance.
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