Project Overview
FNE93-021
Project Type: Farmer
Funds awarded in 1993: $1,975.00
Projected End Date: 12/31/1993
Region: Northeast
State: New York
Project Leader:
Karl North
Northland Sheep Dairy
Annual Reports
Commodities
- Agronomic: general hay and forage crops
Practices
- Production Systems: general crop production
Proposal summary:
Test Puna Chicory for: 1) germination by frost and herd-aided overseeding into permanent hay pasture. 2) relative palatability to Dorset/Texel cross sheep, 3) ability to fill the mid-summer slump of grass productivity in Central New York and 4) persistence under a variety of intensive grazing management.
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