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Mapleseed Pasture Award – Entry forms 2022-2023

  • Patricia Ellingwood
  • 11/28/202105/24/2022

The Beef Farmers of Ontario, the Ontario Sheep Farmers, Mapleseed, and the Ontario Forage Council, invite you to nominate a deserving producer for the Mapleseed…

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Milk Maker Forage Competition

  • Patricia Ellingwood
  • 10/27/202110/27/2021

The Board is taking some time to reevaluate the activities of the Milk Maker Forage Competition, please stay tuned!

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Dufferin County Farmer Receives Mapleseed Pasture Award

  • Patricia Ellingwood
  • 10/31/202310/31/2023

October 2023 – Mike Swidersky and family, of Riverview Ranch Meat Co. in Melancthon, Dufferin County are the recipients of the 2023 Ontario Sheep Pasture…

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Frost Injury in Sorghum Species

  • Christine O'Reilly
  • 09/27/202309/27/2023

Caution! Members of the sorghum family – sorghum, sudangrass, and hybrid sorghum-sudangrass – contain dhurrin, a glucoside that breaks down to release hydrocyanic acid, also…

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Fall Rest Period for Alfalfa

  • Christine O'Reilly
  • 08/30/202308/30/2023

Key Points When is the fall rest period? The fall rest period (sometimes called “critical fall harvest period”) for alfalfa is 450 growing degree days,…

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Potato Leafhopper in Alfalfa

  • Christine O'Reilly
  • 06/27/202306/27/2023

This article was originally written by Joel Bagg in 2012. It was edited June 27, 2023 by Christine O’Reilly to reflect current insecticide options to…

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Preventing and Extinguishing Hay Fires

  • Christine O'Reilly
  • 06/05/202306/05/2023

Key Points: What Causes Fires? The process of forage heating up and then burning is typically called spontaneous combustion. Spontaneous combustion for hay usually occurs…

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Preventing and Extinguishing Silo Fires

  • Christine O'Reilly
  • 06/05/202306/06/2023

Key Points: What Causes Fires? The process of forage heating up and then burning is typically called spontaneous combustion. In silos, forage can dry down…

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Alfalfa Weevil

  • Christine O'Reilly
  • 05/26/202305/26/2023

This article was originally written by Joel Bagg in 2013. It was edited May 25th, 2022 by Christine O’Reilly to reflect current insecticide options to…

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Salting and burying biomass crops in dry landfills could economically capture greenhouse gases for thousands of years

  • Patricia Ellingwood
  • 04/12/202304/12/2023

by Marni Ellery, University of California – Berkeley As published by https://phys.org/ on April 12, 2023 Reducing global greenhouse gas emissions is critical to avoiding a…

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Switchgrass Growers Find New Business Opportunity in Poultry Bedding

  • Patricia Ellingwood
  • 04/06/202304/06/2023

Tom Venesky, tvenesky@lancasterfarming.com Mar 31, 2023 HUNLOCK CREEK, Pa. — Two years ago, Bruce Trumbower had 50 acres of switchgrass and nowhere to sell it.…

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Mapleseed Pasture Award – Entry forms 2023-2024

  • Patricia Ellingwood
  • 02/07/202302/07/2023

The Beef Farmers of Ontario, the Ontario Sheep Farmers, Mapleseed, and the Ontario Forage Council, invite you to nominate a deserving producer for the Mapleseed…

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