Project Overview
FNC07-664
Project Type: Farmer/Rancher
Funds awarded in 2007: $5,700.00
Projected End Date: 12/31/2007
Region: North Central
State: Minnesota
Project Coordinator:
Commodities
- Agronomic: grass (misc. annual), grass (misc. perennial), grass (turfgrass, sod)
Practices
- Animal Production: feed/forage
Proposal summary:
This demonstration project will compare the benefits of integrating warm season grasses into forage farming systems that currently rely on cool-season grasses for production and profitability. We will determine if warm-season grasses increase production and profitability of forage production over cool-season species used alone. We will compare fertilizer requirements among species treatments. The project will monitor forage quality such as crude protein and relative feed value. Rainfall and local weather data will be monitored as well.
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