Fall Semester, 2007
| Final Exam Information Click here for a preparation guide for the final exam. Be sure and bring a calculator. The following are downloads of student presentations. I will expect you to be familiar with these. Look at the preparation guide. Using Brassicas in Vermont Diurnal Variation in Total Non-Structural Carbohydrates - Impact on Quality Grazing Pigs with Permaculture Techniques Poisonous Plants Affecting Horses Prescribed Herbivory for Vegetation Management Silopasture Sludge Applications to Forages Multispecies Grazing Water Quality and Forages Poisonous Plants |
| Greenhouse Study Information Bring your greenhouse study data sheed with you to the final on Friday. Click here for a download of instructions and print it off. Either fill it out before the final exam or bring it with you and fill it out there. |
| If you need to contact me, my email is sid.bosworth@uvm.edu or call at (802) 656-0478. When you send me an email, be sure to put the subject "Forage Class" and send it as "Urgent." |
Class
Schedule of Topics and Assignments
The following is the proposed schedule
for PSS/ASCI 143. Any changes will be posted on this website. Many of
the reading
materials
are in PDF format and requires Adobe Reader which you will have to download
if
you don't have it. You will be responsible to download and
bring
your own lecture notes when they are posted on this site. Check the website each Monday morning for
updates and changes in the schedule.
Generally,
you can choose between a black and white or a color version. If
there
is no download for a particular lecture, I will provide the appropriate
handouts.
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Reading Materials and Assignments |
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8/27 |
Class
Introduction Lecture: Crop Botany,
Growth and Development |
Class
Description and Syllabus (pdf) Reading and resource material for week 1: NRAES 172 - Chapter 1 Forage Crop Morphology, Growth and Development How Pasture Plants Grow Calculating Yields |
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9/3 |
Lecture: Crop Botany,
Growth and Development (con't) Lecture: Forage Identification |
Reading and resource material for week 2: Forage Grass ID Booklet Forage Legume ID Booklet |
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9/10 |
Lecture: Forage Quality - Concepts and Testing Lecture notes (BW) Lecture notes (color) Lecture: Factors That Affect Forage Quality Lecture notes (BW) Lecture notes (color) Lab: Corn staging and DM Monitoring and Yield; Forage ID |
Reading and resource material for week 3: Forage Quality in Perspective Forage Quality Testing Forage Test Terms and Definitions at UVM Test Lab Red Clover for Cows Birdsfoot Trefoil as a Grazing or Hay Crop Additional Reading (optional): NDF Digestiblity RFQ verses RFV |
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9/17 |
Lecture: Perennial Forage Description and
Selection Lecture notes (BW) Lecture notes (color) Other materials for your notes: Characteristics of Perennial Forages Lab: |
Reading and resource material for week 4: |
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9/24 |
Lecture: Introduction to Pasture
and Grazing Management Lecture notes (BW) Lecture notes (color) Lecture: Pasture Ecology and Environmental Impact Lecture notes (BW) Lecture notes (color) Lab: Managed Intensive Grazing at Moultrup Farm |
Reading and resource material for week 5: NRAES 173 - Chapter 3, 4 5 and 6 Four Steps to Rotational Grazing Financial Performance of Wis. Grazing Dairy Farms NRAES 172 - Chapter 2 and 5 |
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10/1 |
First Hour Exam Lecture: Forage Seed and Establishment Practices Lecture notes (BW) Lecture notes (color) Lab: Corn silage and armyworm damage |
Reading and resource material for week 6: NRAES 172 - Chapter 7 Forage Establisment Factsheet (Penn State) |
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10/8 |
Lecture: Principles of Forage Crop Defoliation Lecture notes (BW) Lecture notes (color) Test - Forage ID #1 Lab: Forage Establishment |
Reading and resource material for week 7 NRAES 173 - Chapter 8 |
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10/15 |
Lecture: Cutting
management for hay and haylage Lecture notes (BW) Lecture notes (color) Lab: Grass fed beef systems |
Reading and resource material for week 8: Cutting Management of Alfalfa, Red Clover and BFT Cornell Article on Grass Management for Dairy |
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10/22 |
Lecture: Introduction to Forage
nutrient management Lecture notes (BW) Lab: Horse Paddocks and Stored forage |
Reading and resource material for week 9: NRAES 172 - Chapter 3 & 4 Nutrient Recs for Vermont Field Crops Fertility Management for Forage - Pre-Establisment Fertility Management for Forage - Establisment Phase |
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10/29 |
Second Hour Exam - Monday, Oct 29 Lecture: Forage Nitrogen Management Lecture notes (BW) Lab: Extending the Grazing Season |
Reading and resource material for week 10: UVM Article on PSNT for Corn UVM Study on Grass Response to Manure and N N Management on Pasture Inoculation of Forage Legumes NRAES 173 - Chapter 6 |
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11/5 |
Student Project: "Rough draft" due (3
copies). Peer review assignments made Lecture: P and K Management Lecture notes (BW) Lab: Silage quality assessment (Handout) |
Reading and resource material for week 11: UVM: P and K for Alalfa-Grass Forages UVM: Managing High K Forages for the Dry Cow Cornell: Grass and K Mangement for the Dry Cow |
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11/12 |
Student Project: Peer review reports
due back (3 copies) Lecture: Annual forages Lecture notes (BW) Additional Notes Lecture: Corn silage production practices Lecture notes (BW) (Color) Additional Notes Lab: Hay Quality Assessment (Handout) |
Reading and resource material for week 12: NRAES 173 - Chapter 7 Penn State Fact Sheet on Summer Annuals Cornell Article on BMR Sorghum-Sudangrass Un. Wis. Article on Spring Grains for Forage Penn State Fact Sheet on Corn Silage Un. of Maryland Fact Sheet on Hay Quality |
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11/19 |
Thanksgiving Recess |
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11/26 |
Lecture: Silage
Management and Quality Lecture notes (BW) Silage Management Handout Lab: Forages and Animal Health - Dr. Joe Kloptenstein Student Project: Final written report due Student presentations begin on 11/28 |
Reading and resource material for week 12: NRAES 173 - Chapter 8, page 125 to 132 Managing Bunker Silos Microbial Inoculants for Silage Lactobacillus buchneri for Silage Aerobic Stability Silage Fermentation Analysis Reports |
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12/3 |
Student
presentations continue Lab Test - Forage ID #2 |
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12/14 8:00 - 11:00 am |