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Forage conference
ALL PERSONS INTERESTED in'livestock and dairy production are invited to attend the annual Northern Virginia Forage Conference at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, March 13, at the Middleburg Community Center.
Topics to be discussed during the morning by Virginia Tech faculty and Extension staff are “Finishing Beef Cattle on Pastures,” “Keeping Legumes in Pasture and Hayfields,” “Tall Fescue Variety Grazing Trials,’’ “Animal Responses to Corn and Sorghum Silages,” “Standing Forages for Wintering Beef Cows,” and “Forage Production and Use in New Zealand and Australia.”
The afternoon program will be devoted to reports on research being conducted at the nearby Virginia Forage Research Station on 11 different forage systems for feeding beef cow herds year-round. Members of the station staff will discuss the results of this research and then about 2 p.m. the meeting will move to the research station to observe the various winter grazing and forage systems.
“This program promises to be a most interesting and informative one which persons interested in livestock production will find very helpful,” Harlan E. White, associate professor of agronomy and Extension specialist in forages at Virginia Tech, said.D
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