Antique machinery show this weekend
By
David Dugan-
The 41st reunion of the Ohio Valley Antique Machinery Show will take place Aug. 11-14 at the OVAM Showground on the west side of Georgetown in Brown County.
The showground is located about one mile west of Georgetown on S.R. 125.
There is a daily parade of all equipment, a Garden Tractor Pull on Friday and an Antique Tractor Pull on Saturday, with an Antique Car Show on Sunday.
There will be horseshoe and cornhole tournaments, bingo and lots more. There will also be live music all four days, plus lots of good food and many things from the past. Admission is $5 daily or a membership is $10.
Fall pasture management
Last year, we put together a grazing school and looked at some options for fall grazing. I would like to do some demonstration plots this fall in the three-county area. I am interested in a one day field day in late August and another in October when the forage will be about ready to graze.
We may want to take another look in the spring around the first of April. What we hope to do with these forages is shorten the time we need to feed hay on both ends of the winter feeding time. If you are interested in participating in hosting a demonstration field let me know.
At last year’s grazing school, one of our speakers was Rory Lewandowski. Here is a recent article from Rory about stockpiling. This article appeared in the Beef Cattle Letter.
It’s time for my annual reminder that early to mid-August is a good time to set aside some pasture paddocks to stockpile growth for winter grazing. On many farms the actual implementation of stockpiling can be traced back to management decisions in June and July as pasture paddock rotations were adjusted to set up this practice.
Tall fescue is the forage of choice to stockpile for winter grazing. Compared to other cool season grass species, tall fescue produces more fall growth and does the best job of maintaining forage quality throughout the winter period.
Tall fescue also accumulates high levels of non-structural carbohydrates and has improved palatability when grown under cool as compared to warm or hot weather conditions.
However, research done in Missouri has shown that those alkaloids decrease significantly by about mid-January in stockpiled fescue. This provides another reason why fescue should be stockpiled and used for winter grazing rather than trying to force cattle to graze it during August and September.
After the initial decision is made to stockpile, the next decision is whether or not nitrogen fertilizer should be applied. The application of nitrogen will increase the dry matter (DM) yield of stockpiled fescue as well as the quality of the stockpiled forage. If a paddock has a uniform 30% legume percentage it may not be necessary to add supplemental nitrogen. If legumes are not uniform throughout the field or are less than 30% of the stand then supplemental nitrogen can be beneficial.
Field trials done in southeastern Ohio compared the effect of nitrogen fertilization versus no nitrogen fertilization on stockpiled fescue yield. In that work, 46 lbs of nitrogen/acre applied on Aug. 20 produced an additional 1,400 pounds of DM per acre compared to a stockpiled plot with no nitrogen application.
In that same study, when nitrogen application was delayed a month to Sept. 20 there was still a yield response, but it was decreased with the fertilized plot accumulating an additional 980 pounds of DM/acre compared to the unfertilized plot.
A three-year study in Kentucky showed a yield increase, on average, of an additional 1,100 lbs of DM/acre when stockpiled fescue was fertilized with 46 lbs/acre of nitrogen in mid-August compared to stockpiled fescue without any additional nitrogen fertilizer.
With regard to forage quality, crude protein content is increased when nitrogen is applied to stockpiled forage.
David Dugan is an OSU extension agent for agriculture.[[In-content Ad]]
The showground is located about one mile west of Georgetown on S.R. 125.
There is a daily parade of all equipment, a Garden Tractor Pull on Friday and an Antique Tractor Pull on Saturday, with an Antique Car Show on Sunday.
There will be horseshoe and cornhole tournaments, bingo and lots more. There will also be live music all four days, plus lots of good food and many things from the past. Admission is $5 daily or a membership is $10.
Fall pasture management
Last year, we put together a grazing school and looked at some options for fall grazing. I would like to do some demonstration plots this fall in the three-county area. I am interested in a one day field day in late August and another in October when the forage will be about ready to graze.
We may want to take another look in the spring around the first of April. What we hope to do with these forages is shorten the time we need to feed hay on both ends of the winter feeding time. If you are interested in participating in hosting a demonstration field let me know.
At last year’s grazing school, one of our speakers was Rory Lewandowski. Here is a recent article from Rory about stockpiling. This article appeared in the Beef Cattle Letter.
It’s time for my annual reminder that early to mid-August is a good time to set aside some pasture paddocks to stockpile growth for winter grazing. On many farms the actual implementation of stockpiling can be traced back to management decisions in June and July as pasture paddock rotations were adjusted to set up this practice.
Tall fescue is the forage of choice to stockpile for winter grazing. Compared to other cool season grass species, tall fescue produces more fall growth and does the best job of maintaining forage quality throughout the winter period.
Tall fescue also accumulates high levels of non-structural carbohydrates and has improved palatability when grown under cool as compared to warm or hot weather conditions.
However, research done in Missouri has shown that those alkaloids decrease significantly by about mid-January in stockpiled fescue. This provides another reason why fescue should be stockpiled and used for winter grazing rather than trying to force cattle to graze it during August and September.
After the initial decision is made to stockpile, the next decision is whether or not nitrogen fertilizer should be applied. The application of nitrogen will increase the dry matter (DM) yield of stockpiled fescue as well as the quality of the stockpiled forage. If a paddock has a uniform 30% legume percentage it may not be necessary to add supplemental nitrogen. If legumes are not uniform throughout the field or are less than 30% of the stand then supplemental nitrogen can be beneficial.
Field trials done in southeastern Ohio compared the effect of nitrogen fertilization versus no nitrogen fertilization on stockpiled fescue yield. In that work, 46 lbs of nitrogen/acre applied on Aug. 20 produced an additional 1,400 pounds of DM per acre compared to a stockpiled plot with no nitrogen application.
In that same study, when nitrogen application was delayed a month to Sept. 20 there was still a yield response, but it was decreased with the fertilized plot accumulating an additional 980 pounds of DM/acre compared to the unfertilized plot.
A three-year study in Kentucky showed a yield increase, on average, of an additional 1,100 lbs of DM/acre when stockpiled fescue was fertilized with 46 lbs/acre of nitrogen in mid-August compared to stockpiled fescue without any additional nitrogen fertilizer.
With regard to forage quality, crude protein content is increased when nitrogen is applied to stockpiled forage.
David Dugan is an OSU extension agent for agriculture.[[In-content Ad]]