Forage Information
The Kansas livestock industry depends on land across the state to feed a variety of grazing livestock including beef cattle, dairy cattle, sheep, goats, and horses. Pastures, alfalfa, silage, and cereal grains are just some of the forage utilized in Kansas. Below is the full publication of the Forage Facts Notebook and the individual publications in the notebook.
New in 2016!
Grazing Management: Toxic Plants
Other Forage publications from K-State Research and Extension
K-State Forage Facts Notebook
Grasses/Legumes- Smooth Brome
- Tall Fescue
- Eastern Gamagrass
- Bermudagrass
- Old World Bluestem
- Legumes for Pasture
- Irrigated Pasture
- Matua Grass
- Grazing Wheat Pasture
- Small Grain Cereals as Forage: Crop Selection
- Brassicas and Chicory for Forage
- Utilizing Crabgrass as a Forage
- Stockpiling Tall Fescue for Winter Use
- Interseeding Winter Cereal Crops in Bermudagrass
- Forage Sorghum Silage
- Grazing Corn Residue
- Economics of Sealing Horizontal Silos
- Improving Silage Quality
- Establishing Alfalfa into Cool-Season Grass Pastures
- Native Hay Meadow Management
- Ammonia treatment of Low Quality Forages
- Fertilizing Grasses
- Rangeland Brush and Weed Control
- Nontraditional Forages as Emergency or Supplemental Feedstuffs
- Summer Annual Forages: Selection and Production Characteristics
- Summer Annual Forages: Utilization
- Methods of Leasing Crop Residue for Grazing
- Estimating Crop Residue Available for Grazing
- Small Grain Cereals for Silage and Hay
- Pasture Renovation Practices for Eastern Kansas
- Sunflower Silage
- Blister Beetles
- Nutritional Requirements for Beef Cows
- Foamy Pasture Bloat
- How to Assemble and Evaluate a Forage Grazing System
- Sericea Lespedeza
- Relative Feed Value Measure Forage Quality
- Cattle Grazing and Soil Compaction
- Soil Type and Forage Production
- Musk Thistle Control
- Forage Sampling and Analysis
- Grazing and Haying Conservation Reserve Program Land
- Storing Large Round Bales Outside
- Small Grain Cereals for Forage
- Grazing Distribution
- Tall Fescue Production and Utilization
- Wheat Pasture in Kansas
- Stocking Rate and Grazing Management
- Smooth Brome Production and Utilization
- Rangeland Brush Management
- Rangeland Weed Management
- Prescribed Burning: A Management Tool
- Prescribed Burning: Planning and Conducting
- Kansas Crop Planting Guide
