Save the date July 30, 2015 for the 2015 Annual Forage/Livestock and Extension Field Day at Virginia Tech?s Southern Piedmont Agricultural Research & Extension Center, 2375 Darvills Road, Blackstone, VA. See the attached flyer for more information.
Registration begins at 2:30 p.m.
Sorghum Variety Tour
o Impact of shade on cool-season forage mixtures
o Bermudagrass for summer grazing
o Summer annual grasses for high quality summer forage
o Improving drought tolerance of silage production systems in the Mid-Atlantic
Return from sorghum tour: 500
Registration begins at 5:00 p.m.
Dinner: 5:30 p.m.
Silvopasture Research Tour to begin at 6:00 p.m.
o Stockpiling cool-season grasses for summer grazing
o Silvopasture project overview
o Time zero ecology of silvopasture area
o Silvopasture establishment: thinning the existing stand
o Silvopasture establishment: seedbed preparation
o Silvopasture establishment: forage species
Margaret J. Kenny
Program Support Tech
Southern Piedmont AREC
2375 Darvills Rd
Blackstone, VA 23824
434-292-5331
434-292-5623 Fax