Moscow, Idaho
May 18, 2005
University of Idaho
scientists will sponsor field tours June 2 and June 9 to
review Kentucky bluegrass research.
The June 2 tour will begin
with registration at 7:30 a.m. near Worley on cooperative
research plots on Chris Ramsey's farm. The tour will focus
on the effects of post-harvest residue management on straw
removal, the subsequent year's seed yield and pests. Residue
management treatments include bale and burn, bale and mow,
burn two of every three years, and annual burning. Partial
crop enterprise budgets for the treatments will be
presented.
A luncheon and tour of Central
Harvest States Inc. experimental bluegrass plantings is
planned in conjunction with the UI bluegrass team's
Worley-area tour and will begin at 11 a.m.
The June 9 tour will begin
with registration at 7:30 a.m. near Potlatch at the Hatter
Creek Ranch. The tour will focus on bluegrass residue
management including cattle grazing, baling bluegrass straw
after harvest then grazing with cattle, burning, baling and
burning, baling and mowing, and alternate-year harvests
relying on herbicides or mowing to rejuvenate the stands.
Forage quality and other
factors affecting cattle used in post-harvest grazing will
be reviewed.
Other studies reviewed during
the Hatter Creek tour will include studies of fertilizer
application timing to improve seed yield and applications of
bacteria to decompose residue.
A second tour of the Hatter
Creek Ranch near Potlatch is tentatively planned Sept. 8 to
review research while cattle grazing trials are in progress.
The Idaho State Department of
Agriculture will also participate in both the Worley and
Potlatch area tours to present information about the state
residue disposal program.
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