E2-Foragmg Around, Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 22, 2003
Pennsylvania Forage And Grazing
Conference Set For March 5 And 6
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pany representatives on hand
to showcase new forage and
grazing technologies.
For more information, con
tact your local extension of
fice, NRCS office, or Lisa
Crytser at (814) 865-2543.
Following is the two-day
conference schedule:
Wednesday, March 5
9 a.m. Registration and
visit with exhibitors.
10 a.m. Is the Grass
Greenest in Ireland? - John
and Tom Roche.
11 a.m. Animal Genetics
for Grazing Systems - Steve
Washburn.
12 p.m. Lunch and visit
with exhibitors.
1:30 p.m. Breakout Ses
sions: A. Effectiveness of
Equipment to Speed Hay Dry
ing - A 1 Rotz. B. Dairy and
Sheep in the Same Farming
System? - John and Tom
Roche. C. What’s the Story
with Grazing Farm Records? -
Jim Grace.
2:45 p.m. Break and visit
with exhibitors.
3:30 p.m. Breakout ses
sions: A. How We Make,
Store, and Market Large Rec
tangular Bales. - Bob Cassel,
Pete Hicks, and Luke Brubak
er. B. Meeting the challenges
of grass fed beef. - Ed Ray
bum, John Comerford, and
Bill Deitrick. C. Animal
health concerns on pasture. -
Dave Wolfgang.
4:45 p.m
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5:30 p.m.
PFGC Reception
and Awards.
7 p.m. Informal
Evening Discussions
with Speakers: A.
Dairy Grazing. B.
Grass Fed Beef. C.
Making and Utiliz
ing Hay & Silage.
A lesson
well learned...
Lancaster
Farming’s
classified ads
get results!
Irish grassland specialists Tom, left, and John
Roche, right, joined graziers Ben and Louis Hawley,
Montrose, Susquehanna County, for an informal
meeting in 2001.
Thursday, March 6
7:30 a.m. Registration
and visit with exhibitors.
8:15 a.m. Grazing Is More
Than Grass. - June Hertzler.
8:30 a.m. Impact of New
Regulations and the Farm Bill
on Forage and Grazing
Farms. - Barry Frantz.
9:15 a.m. Maintaining
healthy and productive pas
tures. - Lawrason Sayre and
Doug Martin.
10 a.m. Break and visit
with exhibitors.
10:45 a.m. Breakout Ses-
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sions: A. Identifying Forage
Species, Where They Fit and
Are They Economical? - Mar
vin Hall and John Comerford.
B. Your Cows Are Healthy,
Are You? - Dr. Elizabeth Bill
ingsley. C. How Liable Is Your
Farm? - Christine Kellet.
12 p.m. Lunch and visit
with exhibitors.
1:30 p.m. Grazing Oppor
tunities in the Northeast U.S.:
An Irishman’s Viewpoint. -
John and Tom Roche.
2:30 p.m. Wrap-up and
door prizes.
Increased Diversity May
Reduce Weeds In Pastures
Benjamin F. Tracy
University of Illinois
Matt A. Sanderson
USDA-ARS, Pasture Lab
A long standing ecological
concept suggests that diverse
plant communities should be
more resistant to invasion by
weeds compared with plant
communities that have few
species.
We used data from three
separate studies to test the hy
pothesis that increased forage
species diversity would reduce
weed invasion in pastures.
The first study involved mea
suring weed invasion in exper
imentally constructed pasture
communities ranging from
one to IS species.
A second experiment was
conducted in the greenhouse
and involved sowing of a com
mon perennial weed species,
curly dock, into forage mix
tures containing five or 10 dif
ferent forage species and three
monocultures.
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Lastly, we investigated the
relationship between weed
abundance and forage diversi
ty in 37 pastures that were
surveyed across the Northeast
U.S. Overall, we found that
weed abundance was less in
pastures with more forage di
versity.
This supported our hypoth
esis that increased forage di-
versity may suppress weed in
vasion in pastures. Weed
suppression in diverse pasture
communities likely involves
complementary resource use
among different forage species
that creates a hostile environ
ment for weeds.
We concluded that main
taining productive pastures
and an evenly distributed
array of forage species will ef
fectively reduce weed abun
dance.
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Contact your local
dealer for details.
ADAMSTOWN
Adamstown Equip Inc
717-484-4391
ALLENTOWN
Lehigh Ag Equip
610-398-2553
BECHTELSVILLE
Miller Equip Co
610-845-2911
CRESSON & BELLWOOD
Hines Equip Co.
814- 886-4183
814-742-8171
LEBANON
Umberger’s of Fontana
717-867-5161
OAKLAND MILLS
Peoples Sales & Ser
717-436-2735
OLEY
Pikeville Equip, Inc
610-987-6277
QUARRYVILLE
Grumelli Farm Service
717-786-7318
TAMAQUA
Charles Snyder,ln
570-386-5945
RISING SUN
Ag Industrial Equip
410-658-5568
ELMER
Pole Tavern Equip.
Sales Corp
856-359-2880
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