Web site offers drought resource materials

The University of Wisconsin-Extension Dairy Cattle Nutrition web site has added a list of drought-related resource materials, as well as links to other UW agronomy and forage web sites, to its homepage. Check under “Drought- 2012” for these topics:

• Drought stressed corn silage
• Pricing drought stressed corn silage
• Corn silage pricing decision aid
• General harvesting and feeding guidelines for corn at various stages of maturity
• Making a feed inventory
• Estimating the weight of forage in a forage wagon
• Getting additional forage this fall
• Options for double-cropping barren corn (a web blog)
• Feeding strategies when forage supplies are short

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Source: Dairy Cattle Nutrition UW-Extension

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