Overview
Description
Importance of forages to agriculture, human development and ecosystem services; cool/warm-season forages, forage physiology, conservation, and quality; soil characteristics, nutrient requirements of crops, pasture establishment/renovation, grazing management.
Requirements
Units
Lecture3
Laboratory Studio1
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring
Terms
spring
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- name and identify popular cool- and warm-season forages grown in Nevada and the regions best suited for their cultivation in the state.
- describe practices critical for the establishment and management of forage crops.
- compare and contrast different grazing management practices and discuss how they can be used for sustainable forage and animal production.
- discuss the principles of forage conservation and utilization, make hay, haylage, and silage.
- analyze nutritive value of forages using various laboratory assays and to interpret forage nutritive value results in relation to animal performance.
- collect data, analyze data, and write research report from forage experiments.
- critique and appraise the quality of published journal articles from forage science research.