FAQ

Latest and Most Common Questions

• Ask the Expert: Feeding Baleage to Horses.
• Should I use a Silage Inoculate?
• How much N should I be putting on my winter forages during the winter?
• How exactly is bermudagrass vegetatively established? 
• What is RFQ (Relative Forage Quality)?
• How do you use RFQ (Relative Forage Quality) to categorize hay?
• How do you estimate the weight of round hay bales?
• Browning Bermuda: What’s going on in my field? 
• What has caused my bermudagrass to thin and be less productive?
• What is the right time of day to cut hay? 
• What are some considerations about mob grazing pastures in the Southeast?
• How can I successfully use soybean as a forage crop?
• Should I save my spouted wheat to feed to my cattle?
• What are some rules of thumb for knowing when it is time to harvest forage for hay (i.e., bermudagrass, tall fescue, annual ryegrass, alfalfa, oats, etc.)? 
• What hay probe do you recommend and where can I get one? 
• What forage types make the highest quality and quantity of hay?
• What is Pure Live Seed (PLS)?

Other Common Questions

• Is it feasible to stockpile bermudagrass for fall and early winter grazing?
• What about growing switchgrass in Georgia? 
• Is there a way to test for toxic fescue in my pastures (or hayfields)? 
• What is it about tall fescue that causes animal problems (i.e., fescue toxicosis)? 
• What is Management-intensive Grazing (MiG) and what can it do for my farm? 
• What do all of those grazing terms mean? 
• How long should I wait to graze newly planted forages?
• Does aerating or using a renovator on hay and pasture fields pay?
• Is orchardgrass a good grass species for horse pastures? 
• Is there a difference in drying time between flail type and roller type conditioners? I am considering buying one or the other and need advice.
• What is the nutritional value of corn fodder/stover (stalks, shucks, and left over grain after harvesting)? What is it worth? 
• I've got a lot of Johnsongrass (or Sorghum, sudangrass, etc.) in my pasture/hayfield and we just got a frost. What should I do about prussic acid poisoning? 
• My pastures contain a lot of dallisgrass and I have noticed that my animals get spooked real easy. Is there a connection? 
• My supplier has got a cheaper variety of rye, wheat, oats, or ryegrass. What's the difference between it and the ones you recommend?
• I have a lot of sicklepod, coffee senna (aka coffee weed), and/or pigweed in a crop field. I want to graze or bale up the crop residue. Are those weeds going to cause a problem?