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| on winter annuals, we want to see ______, not ______ |
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grazing
harvest and nutrient management |
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| Annual (Italian) Ryegrass is adapted to most of the US except |
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| some details about the Adaptation of Annual Ryegrass |
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-pH range 5.0 - 7.8
-Responds well to N fertilizer
-Produces forage in late winter/spring |
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| when fall establishment of annual ryegrass occurs |
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| Fall establishment in early October (North) late October to mid-November (South) |
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| a disease that annual ryegrass is susceptible to |
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| drought tolerance of annual ryegrass |
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| flooding tolerance of annual ryegrass |
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| tolerant of short duration flooding |
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| In the South, you have more flexibility in planting date of annual ryegrass because of... |
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| something that will seriously hamper the establishment of annual ryegrass |
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| why it is better to wait to establish annual ryegrass rather than try and get an early start with seeding |
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| because gray leafspot will seriously hamper the establishment of annual ryegrass |
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| when to plant annual ryegrass |
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| when average temperatures fall below 21-25°C (70-77°F) |
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| when gray leafspot grows best |
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| at temperatures 21-25°C (70-77°F) |
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| when annual ryegrass will show symptoms of gray leafspot |
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| within 72 hours after inoculation |
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| annual ryegrass tolerance to grazing |
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| Tolerant of continuous grazing |
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| the best way to graze annual ryegrass |
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| short duration rotational grazing |
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| ADF translates to this regarding after the animal eats it |
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| the annual forage species that has the most aggressive growth |
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| pH range that cereal rye can tolerate |
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| pH range that cereal rye grows best in |
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| Optimum germination temperature for cereal rye |
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| when to seed cereal rye in Georgia depending on where in the state you are |
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Sept 1 – Mountains
Sept. 15 - Middle GA
Oct 15-Nov. 1 in S. Georgia |
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| ideal seeding rate for cereal rye |
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| ideal seeding depth for cereal rye |
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| apply this in this amount to maximize growth of cereal rye |
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| Apply 40-60 lbs/A of N at emergence to maximize fall growth. |
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| height at which to graze cereal rye |
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| Peak in fall and peak in spring |
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| combine cereal rye with this to extend the grazing season |
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| Combine with ryegrass which peaks high in spring ….extended grazing season. |
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| which is more potoperiod sensitive? cereal rye or annual ryegrass? |
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| is vernalization required for cereal rye? |
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| when the quality of cereal rye starts to go down |
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| when you have more flexibility with cereal rye |
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| some Seedling Diseases of Rye |
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-seedling blight
-leaf rust
-anthracnose |
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| the spring diseases of rye |
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| disease that's the biggest problem for rye |
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| seedling blight is easily managed by... |
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| treating seed with fungicide |
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| when the spring diseases (leaf rust, anthracnose) are not an issue for rye |
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| when ergot in grain causes toxicity |
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| only if wet conditions prevail and plants mature |
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| one way to manage seedling diseases of rye |
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| One way to manage is to graze heavily or mow to avoid seed heads; best way to manage it is to make sure it don’t go to seed. |
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| best way to manage seedling diseases of rye |
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| making sure it don’t go to seed |
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| what you want the metabolizable energy (ME) of forages to be |
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| amount of energy in a forage vs. amount of forage consumed |
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| amount of fiber in a forage vs. amount of forage consumed |
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| amount of energy in a forage vs. amount of fiber in a forage |
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| why forages with less energy and more fiber get eaten less |
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| because the less energy, the more fiber, which means more filling |
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| is wheat used for forages? |
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| it is not normally grown for forage |
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| why there's a lot of wheat out there |
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-Current price > $10.00/bu
-Excellent rotation for row crops
-Plant in fall, harvest in spring |
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| does wheat require vernalization? |
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| what they do where wheat is used as a forage |
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| Where they do use this as a forage, they graze it, take the animals off of it, and let it go to seed. |
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| why use wheat as a forage? |
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-Can predict stage of development easily
-Very high quality as long as in vegetative stage of development.
-Can graze plants with little or no effect on grain yield
-Cheap gain on animals even though it is short duration grazing |
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| the secret to using wheat as a forage |
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| Don’t let plant develop past the joint stage while being grazed. |
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| why you don't want wheat to go past the joint stage when using it as a forage |
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| because the joint stage is when it starts to go to seed |
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| why people like to grow wheat as a double crop |
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| because wheat is very high in protein |
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| recommended time to plant wheat in Georgia's Mountain/Limestone Valley region |
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| recommended time to plant wheat in Georgia's Piedmont region |
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| recommended time to plant wheat in Georgia's Upper Coastal Plain region |
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| recommended time to plant wheat in Georgia's Lower Coastal Plain region |
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| recommended planting rate for wheat |
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| recommended planting depth for wheat |
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| recommended row width for wheat |
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| recommended tool with which to plant wheat |
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| amount of N with which to fertilize Soft Red Winter Wheat at planting |
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| amount of N with which to fertilize Soft Red Winter Wheat at jointing |
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| when to graze cows on wheat |
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| where the plant's energy goes when it goes to flower |
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| You wanna graze before this stage of the plant's growth |
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| a problem you could have if you graze after a plant's stem elongation |
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