| General |
How Plants Grow
Plant Succession
Water Cycle
Causing and Controlling Erosion
Pasture and Hayland Planting - data, tables and maps |
| Grazing Management |
Prescribed Grazing
Grazing Management Effects on Plants
Managing Year-Round Forage
Stockpiling Forages
Hog Pastures and Conservation Compliance
Forage Quality
Forage Quality Testing
Livestock Distribution
Brush Management
Weed Management in Established Pastures
Drought Planning Considerations
Native Warm Season Grass
Pasture Management System Layout
Prescribed Grazing Tables -FOTG
Steps for a Year-Round Grazing Management Plan
Grazing (Clipping) Effects on Forages (Being Developed)
Factors Affecting Dry Matter Intake (Being Developed)
Prescribed Burning (Being Developed) |
| Inventories |
Plant Identification
Livestock Supply
Livestock Demand
Composition of Existing Pastures
Pasture/Hayland/LivestockThe following
worksheet requires
Microsoft Word.
Soils Grazing Inventory Worksheet
528-1 Fillable Worksheet.doc
(DOC, 352 kb)
The following
worksheet requires
Adobe
Acrobat Reader.
Inventory
Worksheet [PDF] |
| Establishment/Renovation |
Establishment of Warm
Natural Areas
Pastureland Species and Mixtures
Hayland Species and Mixtures
Establishment Techniques
Frost Seeding and Species Suitability
Alfalfa Autotoxicity
Weed Control
Seed Quality |
| Species |
Chicory
Annual Forage Seeding Rates
Warm
Season Grasses
Bermuda grass
Big Bluestem
Caucasian Bluestem
Eastern Gama grass
Indian grass
Little Bluestem
Side-Oats Gama
Switch grass
Cool
Season Grasses
Tall Fescue
Kentucky
Bluegrass
Orchard Grass
Redtop
Smooth
Bromegrass
Timothy
Cool-Season
Perennial Legumes
Alfalfa
Alsike Clover
Birdsfoot Trefoil
Crownvetch
Kura Clover
Ladino Clover
Biennial
Legumes
Red Clover
Sweet Clover
Annual Legumes
Annual Lespedeza
Annual
and Alternative
Brassicas for Forage
Brown Midrib Sorghum-Sudangrass
Grazing Maize (Corn)
Turnips for Forage
Soybeans for Forage
Rape for Forage
Oats for Fall/Spring Grazing
Field Peas for Forage |
|
Noxious/Invasive Species |
Invasive Species
Reed Canary Grass
Johnsongrass
Poisonous Plants
Common Cocklbur
Eastern Black Nightshade
Hemp Godbane
Horsenettle
Jimsonweed
Milkweed
Poison Hemlock
Common Pokeweed
White Snakeroot
Black Locust
Bouncing Bet
Bracken
Buffalo-bur
Buttercups (Pasture & Meadows)
Buttercups (Woods)
Climbing Bittersweet
Corn Cockle
Great Lobelia or Blue Cardinal Flower
Ground Ivey or Creeping-Charlie
Hemp or Marihuana
Hogwort
Horsetails and Scouring Rushes
Indian Tobacco & Pale Spiked Lobelia
Oaks
Ohio Buckeye
Pigweed
Potato
Rocket Larkspur
Sneezeweeds
Star-of-Bethlehem
Water Hemlock
White Sweet Clover
Wild Cherries
Yews |
| Animal
Health |
Control of Parasites in Grazing Beef Cattle
Control of Internal Parasites in Sheep
Control of Parasites in dairy Cattle
Control of Parasites in Equine
Bloat and Pasture
Ergot and Cattle Health
Pink Eye in cattle
Anti-Quality Factors in ranchland and Pastureland Forages
Neosporosis-Abortion in cattle
Diseases
Toxicities/Poisoning |
| Fertility |
Soil Testing
Interpretations
Testing Facilities
Nutrient Cycling in Pastures
Pasture Fertilization |
| Fencing Infrastructure |
|
Livestock Watering Infrastructure |
Water resources Development
(Managing Intensive Grazing of Beef) |
|
Livestock Handling Facilities |
Pasture and Corral handling
Basics
Livestock Handling Facilities Design
Sheep and Goat Handling and Facilities Options |
| Livestock Nutrition |
Feeding Cows
Pasture-Based Feeding Programs for Dairy Cattle
Relative Forage Quality (RFQ) |
| Miscellaneous |
| Minerals |
| Reference Material |
| Grazing Websites |
| Contact |
Richard G. Hungerford, State Resource
Conservationist
2118 W. Park Court
Champaign, IL 61821
217-353-6640
E-Mail:
richard.hungerford@il.usda.gov
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