University of Maryland to Host Hay and Pasture Conferences

The conferences are designed to show attendees how forage management can make a difference in a farm’s bottom line.
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Three regional conferences across Maryland and Delaware will provide opportunities for horse owners and farmers, as well as agribusiness and agency personnel, to obtain practical and quite useful information that can make a difference in the farm’s bottom line. This winter’s series of "Hay and Pasture Conferences" will take a slightly different program approach, said Les Vough, MS, PhD, University of Maryland Forage Crops Extension Specialist Emeritus and conferences coordinator.

Featured speakers this year will be James Green, PhD, professor and Extension forage specialist emeritus, from the North Carolina State University Department of Crop Science, and Dick Kaufman, regional manager of W-L Research, in Columbia, Pennsylvania.

Green will make two presentations at each conference: "Some Little Known Forage Facts That Can Make a Difference in Your Bottom Line," and " Q & A: Answers to Topics of Interest from the Audience … A Time to Ask Your Hay/Pasture Question."

Kauffman will present "Improving Hay and Pasture Quality through New Developments in Alfalfa." He will address the new reduced-lignin trait which could revolutionize the production and feeding of alfalfa, which offers growers harvest flexibility—the reduced production of lignin increases digestibility and widens the harvest window for the alfalfa. The increased digestibility means more beef and milk produced per pound of feed and less manure from those animals

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