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The UGA Forages website is your window to information on a wide variety of forage management issues.

This information is extended to you by scientists from the University of Georgia, who continue to research all aspects of forage and livestock management. The recommendations found here are based on peer-reviewed research conducted in Georgia and throughout the world. The website provides accurate and up-to-date information about all forage management issues facing producers in Georgia and the Southeast.

Please check this website regularly for updates, upcoming events, and hot topics.


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The Next Bermudagrass Cultivar
By Dr. Bill Anderson, Research Geneticist, USDA-ARS When I started as perennial forage grass breeder for ARS sixteen years ago, the primary goal was to develop a cold-tolerant seeded bermudagrass since Tifton 85 seemed to satisfy the sprigged market. The battle was to develop a seeded forage that had high biomass...
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Bermudagrass Stem Maggot in GA Hayfields
Will Hudson, Lisa Baxter and Dennis Hancock We’ve had a number of calls from growers and agents in the last week or so concerned that they should be spraying for BSM.  Even in south GA, the flies are just now starting to show up.  You may be able to find...

Georgia Forages Calendar

2019 Corn Silage and Forage Field Day
Jun 20
8:00AM - 2:00PM 2019 Corn Silage and Forage Field Day Tifton Campus Conference Center, Tifton, GA
The 2019 Advanced Grazing School will be held in combination with the 2019 Deep South Stocker Conference. For more information... CLICK HERE
Jul 16
07/16 8:00AM - 07/17 5:00PM 2019 Advanced Grazing School UGA Livestock Instructional Arena, Athens
Southeast Hay Contest ENTRY Deadline Samples must be AT THE UGA FEW LAB by 5:00PM For Contest Details... CLICK HERE
Sep 19
8:00AM - 5:00PM Southeast Hay Contest ENTRY Deadline
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Forage News

Sha Tao was hired on July 1, 2014, to study heat stress nutrition, management and physiology. CAES News
Sha Tao was hired on July 1, 2014, to study heat stress nutrition, management and physiology.
Sha Tao’s research at UGA-Tifton helps dairy cattle better deal with effects of heat stress
When Sha Tao joined the University of Georgia’s Department of Animal and Dairy Science in 2014 to study heat stress nutrition, management and physiology in dairy cattle, Georgia’s dairy producers welcomed the new expert in heat stress physiology.
Daniela Lourenco, who first came to UGA to finish her doctoral research, serves as an assistant professor in the Department of Animal and Dairy Science. Her research focuses on using big data analytics to improve livestock breeding. CAES News
Daniela Lourenco, who first came to UGA to finish her doctoral research, serves as an assistant professor in the Department of Animal and Dairy Science. Her research focuses on using big data analytics to improve livestock breeding.
Big data and big animals meet in UGA's Animal Breeding and Genetics Group
As an undergraduate student in Brazil, Daniela Lourenco knew that she loved statistics and genetics, but she wasn’t sure where that passion would take her.
UGA Livestock Judging Team coach Sarah Loughridge, members Sadie Lackey, Morgan Rowan, Leanne Chafin, farmer owner John Turner, Ian Bennett, Anna Butler, Abigail Sartin and assistant coach Dylan Davis at an Angus farm in Tennessee. CAES News
UGA Livestock Judging Team coach Sarah Loughridge, members Sadie Lackey, Morgan Rowan, Leanne Chafin, farmer owner John Turner, Ian Bennett, Anna Butler, Abigail Sartin and assistant coach Dylan Davis at an Angus farm in Tennessee.
UGA Livestock Judging Team measures the season in miles traveled and memories made
Seven college students, one van, 10,000 miles and too many rumps, quarters and hooves to count — this is what one year on a collegiate livestock team looks like.
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