Beef
K-State Forage Facts Notebook
The Kansas livestock industry depends on land across the state to feed a variety of grazing livestock including beef cattle, dairy cattle, sheep, goats, and horses. Pastures, alfalfa, silage, and cereal grains are just some of the forage utilized in Kansas. Below is the full publication of the Forage Facts Notebook and then individual publications in the notebook.
Grasses/Legumes- Smooth Brome
- Tall Fescue
- Eastern Gamagrass
- Bermudagrass
- Old World Bluestem
- Legumes for Pasture
- Irrigated Pasture
- Matua Grass
- Grazing Wheat Pasture
- Small Grain Cereals as Forage: Crop Selection
- Brassicas and Chicory for Forage
- Utilizing Crabgrass as a Forage
- Stockpiling Tall Fescue for Winter Use
- Interseeding Winter Cereal Crops in Bermudagrass
- Forage Sorghum Silage
- Grazing Corn Residue
- Economics of Sealing Horizontal Silos
- Improving Silage Quality
- Establishing Alfalfa into Cool-Season Grass Pastures
- Native Hay Meadow Management
- Ammonia treatment of Low Quality Forages
- Fertilizing Grasses
- Rangeland Brush and Weed Control
- Nontraditional Forages as Emergency or Supplemental Feedstuffs
- Summer Annual Forages: Selection and Production Characteristics
- Summer Annual Forages: Utilization
- Methods of Leasing Crop Residue for Grazing
- Estimating Crop Residue Available for Grazing
- Small Grain Cereals for Silage and Hay
- Pasture Renovation Practices for Eastern Kansas
- Sunflower Silage
- Blister Beetles
- Nutritional Requirements for Beef Cows
- Foamy Pasture Bloat
- How to Assemble and Evaluate a Forage Grazing System
- Sericea Lespedeza
- Relative Feed Value Measure Forage Quality
- Cattle Grazing and Soil Compaction
- Soil Type and Forage Production
- Musk Thistle Control
- Forage Sampling and Analysis
- Grazing and Haying Conservation Reserve Program Land
- Storing Large Round Bales Outside
- Small Grain Cereals for Forage
- Grazing Distribution
- Tall Fescue Production and Utilization
- Wheat Pasture in Kansas
- Stocking Rate and Grazing Management
- Smooth Brome Production and Utilization
- Rangeland Brush Management
- Rangeland Weed Management
- Prescribed Burning: A Management Tool
- Prescribed Burning: Planning and Conducting
- Kansas Crop Planting Guide
Forages & Pastures
Dual Purpose Wheat: Improving Grazing Management Using a Smartphone App
Establishing Native Grasses
Estimating the Costs of Managed Haying or Grazing of CRP
Grazing Distribution
Grazing Management : Toxic Plants
Kansas Crop Planting Guide
Kansas Mesonet (weather stations reports)
Kansas Switchgrass Production Handbook
Kansas Wildflowers & Grasses
K-State Department of Agronomy - Range and Forage
Maintaining Grass Waterways
Managing Kansas Grazinglands for Multiple Benefits
Midwest Cover Crops Council – Cover Crop Decision Tool
National Drought Mitigation Center
Nitrate Toxicity
Nontraditional Forages as Emergency or Supplemental Feedstuffs
Nutrition Evaluation of Grazed Kansas Corn and Sorghum Crop Residues
Prussic Acid Poisoning
Range Grasses of Kansas
Rangeland Brush Management
Rangeland Weed Management
Sericea Lespedeza: History, Characteristics, and Identification
Small Grain Cereals for Forage
Stocking Rate and Grazing Management
Summer Annual Forages: Selection and Production Characteristics
Summer Grazing Strategies for Stocker Cattle in the Kansas Flint Hills
Triticale in Kansas
Weedy Bromes-Recognizing Them at an Early Stage
Hay and Harvested Forage
Amoniation video
Control and Prevention of Hay Fires
Determining Forage Moisture Concentration
Forage Sampling Procedures and Equipment
Large Round Bale Hay Storage
Large Round Bale Safety
Management Tips for Round Hay Bales: System Selection, Harvesting, Moving and Storing
Native Hay Meadow Management
Silage
Livestock Water Systems
Estimating Water Requirements for Mature Beef Cows
How Water Quality and Source Affect Animal Performance - 2005
Waterers and Watering Systems: A Handbook for Livestock Producers and Landowners - 2007
Management
Beef Cow Nutrition Guide
Body Condition Scorecard for Cattle
Creep Feeding Calculator
Guide to Body Condition Scoring of Beef Cows and Bulls
Guide to Body Condition Scoring in Cattle
How Feeding-Site Mud and Temperature Affect Animal Performance - 2005
Management of Cows by Body Condition
Nutritional Composition of Feedstuffs for Beef Cattle
Questions and Answers on Beef Cattle Nutrition
Stocker Cattle Management and Nutrition - 1991
Winter Feeding Sites and Calf Scours - 2006
