Events
![Loading Events](https://www.buylocalfood.org/wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/src/resources/images/tribe-loading.gif)
- This event has passed.
Strategies to Optimize Yield and Quality of Forage on Your Farm
March 6, 2018 @ 9:30 am - 3:30 pm
Free registration, lunch provided.
Please join the UMass Extension Crop, Dairy, Livestock, & Equine team for a multi-state collaborative event that focuses on innovations in sustainable forage production, featuring presentations from several distinguished professors and professionals in the Northeast. Featured
Topics: Perennial Forage Variety Selection (Dr. Heather Darby, UVM; Double Cropping: Making Money on Both Ends (Tom Kilcer, NY); Managing Weeds in Pastures (Dr. Sid Bosworth, UVM); Estimates of MA Dairy Costs and Returns (Dr. Dan Lass, UMass); Understanding the Importance of Fiber Digestibility (Rick Kersbergen, UMaine); Get Your Planter Ready for No-Till (Jeff Sanders, UVM); Troubleshooting Corn After Cover Crops (Sam Corcoran, UMass); and Forage Sorghum: The Other Corn Crop (Tom Kilcer, NY). Please RSVP if you plan on attending to ensure that the event runs smoothly.
For questions or to RSVP, please contact: Alexa Smychkovich, asmychko@umass.edu; (413) 545 -5221
For more information, please visit: https://ag.umass.edu/crops-dairy-livestock-equine/events/strategies-to-optimize-yield-quality-of-forage-on-your-farm