Forage Crops for Maximum Livestock Nutrition with Paige Smart

This workshop is led by regional manager for Southeast AgriSeeds, Paige Smart. We will explore summer annual forage crops as a means of increasing summer productivity while enhancing the nutritional value of pastures. Gain a better understanding of how to combine forages throughout the year to reduce feeding time. We will discuss how increasing the number of grazing days while decreasing the time spent feeding supplements, improves the bottom line of an operation. Livestock nutritional needs are often better met with improved forage varieties than with hay or supplements. We will also compare the growth of many different summer annual forages.

[@johntitor7600]

She makes grass sound so good. I want to start munching on some.

[@clarencecarter960]

Best video on this subject ever! Easy to understand because Paige is an excellent teacher! Great content! What a wonderful woman!!!!

[@7cooty7]

It's very sad how college now a days want to push students towards what they think is best and not what is best, glad you came back!

[@Heldsam1]

We teach our children money is the all mighty when the first focus should be family, love, and compassion for others- I think our entire educational system needs an overhaul - Were loosing our Ancestry and family values rapidly. 💜

[@downbntout]

No Doubt - having learned about regen ag/ranching I cannot do anything else. I'm 67 and I'm a lot more delighted to roll out of bed and out the door than I ever, ever was. Ya-HOOOO!

[@thechaosgardener]

Great content! I teach high school earth science and am teaching regenerative thinking to my students.

[@roblena7977]

Yeah tell them to pay attention, im 43 years old and im learning this shit all over. Midlife crisis made me a farmer

[@xyzsame4081]

Very impressed with her knowledge, enthusiasm for the issue, and she is a good engaging speaker, too. - new subscriber here.

[@Hayley-sl9lm]

Yeah she's super intelligent and a good communicator

[@nirmal6362]

Paige is beautiful, jovial and smart, thanks for the video. Informative and entertaining.

[@lkhfun6575]

Great information. 2nd half was great too. I hope you have her back to speak again.

[@downbntout]

Well made vid - stillshots added to clarify, sure does help

[@joannao7314]

Ive been looking for this kind of info! Thank you!

[@michaelfelder2640]

@18:11... for pasture hogs... look for the new studies on raising Cattails as a BETTER plant that provides more nutrients than Alfala. Grade down a man-made wetland around your ponds. When ready to feed, drain off surface water elect. fence off a section and turn in the hogs. Takota Coen in BC has done great wrork with his studies.

[@lisamay6643]

That you for your passion on cover crops.

[@ericcairo657]

Great video can’t wait to go more in depth with The next video’s.

[@nickmitchell3095]

What great information! Thank you for your time

[@harithasaruchchunan5177]

Informative.God bless you

[@rogercoomber9598]

Very informative video. 👍🏻

[@joansmith3492]

Learned a lot. Very interesting. Thank you.

[@SugarCreekOffGrid]

Awesome video!

[@michaelfelder2640]

@6:09 Red Clover cancels out a fare bit of the negative affects when eaten along side Kentuky 31. got that tip from Greg Judy

[@wabbit321]

Great video! I have sent it to others in our company to watch.

[@minnahumble2294]

Great content and information.

[@everettsanderson4189]

That was so interesting. She is great. Sooooo knowlegable.

[@yoopermann7942]

has there been any work done with comfrey as a forage? thanks for the tips

[@gardenlady1293]

great video

[@2shay337]

Can the fescue that is without the toxin be grown as a fodder to be fed during winter on farms that don't have acres of grazing land? I'm researching what has the minerals and vitamins to feed livestock on small hobby farm. Learned that sprouted seeds/fodder can't be the only feed for all the animals, but what can be fed during winter when you don't have a large storage barn for storing the alfalfa hay for feeding and the bedding straw hay the four months hay is needed for roughage?

[@ziauddin7948]

good cattle forage feed information # to eliminate fescue grass fungi toxin production turn it in to hay dry matter the toxic fungi will be eliminated since fungi needs moisture to grow & cant live in direct sunlight heat during hay making #

[@justinkaub5038]

I have a very small piece of land with a few sheep. Second summer with my property and just over a year with my hobby sheep. I have a bunch of rag weed. Sheep love it. However I would like to broadcast a pasture grass mix. The mix at our local store is fescue, I think ryegrass, orchard, and clovers. Would it be best to broadcast in September, or say January/February timeframe?

[@makeitkate3240]

Where was this filmed? I wonder how to this information will translate to my desert area.

[@livingwebfarms]

Western North Carolina in the mountains

[@jeffrusk8059]

Can you recommend a good blend of the forages, to avoid Bloat from the legumes and toxins from the fescue? Like a good percentage of a variety for good but safe diversity?

[@sadrien]

This depends on the type of animal and legume. Some legumes like sainfoin, milkvetch, or trefoil are bloat-free where as others like alfalfa are highly toxic in high quantities when fresh from a mix of toxins (saponins, a major cause of bloat, and prussic acid which causes cyanide poisoning for example in alfalfa). Brassicas can also cause goiter, so it really depends on specific forbs. The ideal portion of legumes is at least 30% for nitrogen fixation and total yield and digestibility. A good mix could be 50% grass, 20% non-legumous forbs, and 30% legumes if the grass is vigorous. Even stands of less than 25% grass are normally grazable and often occur in range lands and native praires although grass is normally more productive than forbs in biomass (but less nutritious both in mineral and macromolecule content). A pure stand of some legumes, such as sainfoin, is grazable without issues but normally legumes should not make up more than 50% of any mix due to being lower in their total forage yield compared to other plants and self-competitiveness. Grasses are normally used in at least 50% of the coverage in order to make optimal use of the nitrogen for biomass production.

[@peterm.eggers520]

Like to have heard more about no till, soil regeneration, balancing warm season and cool season in combination or by area, minimizing external inputs, if any, and polyculture optimization.

[@svetlanikolova7673]

ITS SIMPLE. 12 Inch compost 12 inch mulch. Next fall 10 inch compost 12 inches mulch year after 8 inch compost 12 inches mulch Send a sample of your land after this holistic treatment. Simplify and just layer In the fall, tje mulch will keep your soil warm In the spring and summer, mulch prevent high heat erosion and watering. Nit tilling keeps soil life happy, you are fed and you don't kill anything by using pesticides or fake fertilizer. Grow multicrops and edible flowers together! YOU SAVE TIME MONEY EFFORT THE LAND THE BEES AND YOURSELF IN The LONG RUN

[@peterm.eggers520]

@@svetlanikolova7673 That is not simple. The amount of time required to do this and maintain it leaves little time to produce extra to trade for clothes, shelter, or any modern amenities. It is also limited in geographical viability.

[@peachykeen7634]

@@peterm.eggers520 agreed. Plus if I want to rejuvenate my pastures, you want me to put 1 FOOT of mulch over 4 ACRES?!? 😱

[@jacobmarshall564]

@@peachykeen7634 cattle add carbon to the soil, feed hay, let them do the work.

[@2shay337]

? can alfalfa and fescue seeds be grown as fodder, but put outdoors during summer and dried for the winter months?

[@user-el2eu7tw5p]

부모님 등록금 살살 녹는중~ 레전드

[@jeramyshumaker398]

Is chicory good for cattle??

[@masholek4945]

Terimakasih🙏

[@jkagrimediasuchithra1165]

Super👍

[@justinmixon6290]

Is there another plant that serves the same function as fescue to avoid the fungus situation entirely?

[@charlesbelser158]

Novel endophyte fescue. MAX Q etc. Slightly less viable but still good.

[@londonwerewolves]

34:21 My mother would say "awesome" in the same way when she was frustrated with people.

[@randallcrawford4141]

Good video on grazing...my strategy is a pasture salad with different patable forage including chicory ..all heal , blue stem ,oats wheat ..rye and clover's, and orchard grass and alpha as I had noticed wild meadows have a diverse blend within the grasses in some bare spots found native grasses do well and even wormwood area as a dewormer too! And other herbs like peppermint known many horses enjoy it but keep it out of reach and cut it for a treat! Chestnut trees and fruit trees out side a fence line like apples and pears are a nice seasonal treat too .but found horses will eat the leaves too so keep that in mind to how close to their reach you plant them..

[@Hayley-sl9lm]

Oh cool, they can eat heal-all? Good to know 🙂

[@KD-jr8lp]

What is the disadvantage of endophyte free variety?

[@Hayley-sl9lm]

Endophyte allows it to survive more harsh weather conditions. Also the toxin keeps animals from grazing it too far down.

[@downbntout]

Endophyte teaches graziers when to put the grazing animals on! Wow

[@PhilKJames]

She’s... Smart

[@rwhitlowjr]

Where is “this region?”

[@calebjaimes4082]

What region of the US are they in?

[@Hayley-sl9lm]

Carolinas somewhere I think

[@michaelhansen6977]

Don't you think seed companies have a vested interest in shorter lived plants. The more you need to seed the more they make. I think as proof you can look at legal suits against farms their seeds have blown onto. Perhaps we should be looking at heritage seeds.

[@garybratton7250]

So what is “this area” or “this part of the world”? We need some area context.

[@TomiaMacQueen]

Western North Carolina in the mountains according to a comment further up

[@altheabrown2044]

paige, ''plant scared of herbivory'' needs to be carefully nuanced. Different types of stresses affect the same plant, grass in this case in different ways. UV stress, stress via pathogen challenge, many other types of ''stress' affect the shikimkc acid pathway, at the TAL biosynthesis step. Some forms of grazing can be very beneficial depending on the circumstances, e.g. intensity of grazing, trampling, stocking, etc. Many mammalian herbivores can have a beneficial effect on the growth of grasses, and some other forage crops. This stimulus can be slight, but become a useful positive in certain circumstances.

[@theagricultural7321]

Please add subtitle in english

[@buddingnaturalist]

It's already autogenerated by youtube. Click on the little box at the bottom of the screen and it will put the subtitles up.

[@jamesalcoy5085]

Very nice video.,I got some ideas on how to produce more grass in my goat farm👍

[@viscache1]

Great content! But plants don’t ‘want’ anything, nor are they ‘afraid’ or ‘scared’ of grazing. When you submit to anthropomorphism in plants you negatively impact the grazing professions. Sheep ‘want’ grass, clover and fresh hay.. Sheep are, in fact, ‘scared’ of dogs, tractors and predators. But you rarely, if ever, see a plant jump up and run away from sheep as they come to graze. Thanks for a great video and information. I’m studying up to frost sow my pasture for the next year’s grazing…hope i found morbidly unemotional species!

[@garybratton7250]

So “natural selection” must be intelligent to be real?

[@patanthony9286]

Missing farming even after being called by Yehovah God and Yeshua ha Messiach

[@user-wu6rg8yv8m]

13:12

[@jjime1175]

Why do we continue to try and make Mother Nature bend to our command? We think we know better but when it comes down to it we need to work in sync with nature and stop trying to modify or do as man thinks is better, sometimes it’s not what mans thinks is best it’s really about money if you don’t change the fungus then there is nothing to sell but change the fungus and market it as a cure all and now you have a product to sell

[@adnanadnanadnan3520]

nothing interesting what are u saying.but ur attitude and expiration awesome.