-Foraging Around, Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 13,2002
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A Gathering Of Grazers
And Graziers
At Stoltzfus Farm
Del Voight, Lebanon Co. extension, hands out pas
ture management tips at the Abner Stoltzfus farm
pasture walk and field day.
Photos by Dave Lefever
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• The Pennsylvania Poi
sonous Plant Website: http://
cal.nbc.upenn.edu/poison/
has the book Poisonous
Plants of Pennsylvania ar
ranged in a very user friendly
format.
• The Cornell Poisonous
Plants Information Database:
http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/
plants/index.html has sec
tions and links to other sites
on poisonous plants.
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SCHAEFFERSTOWN (Lebanon Co.) Participants of a pasture walk and field
day at Abner Stoltzfus’s farm June i 1 examine a smorgasbord of forages en
joyed by these cows. For grazing, Stoltzfus grows a combination of perennials
and annuals, including millet, turnips, sorghum/Sudangrass, ryegrass, or
chardgrass, and clovers, in combination with a TMR.
Participants in the field day also learned parasite management methods for
pastured livestock, sprayer calibration, and spray drift management using air
induction nozzles.