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2	Hill Top Haven Gelbvieh Farm Alternative Forages
3	Great View
4	Quality Gelbvieh Cattle
5	Abundant Wildlife
6	Good Grass
7	GRAZING MANAGEMENT AT HILL TOP Pasture Rotation Extended Grazing using Stockpiled Fescue Alternative forages for stored feed and grazing
8	Pasture Rotation Divide large pastures into small fields with polywire electric fence. Move cattle regularly according to weather, grass height, and water.
9	Stockpile Fescue to Extend Grazing Time in the fall Fertilize in August with 50 lbs Nitrogen per acre. Do not graze until needed in fall Divide into small fields of 1 week or less to utilize pasture
10	Extended Grazing! What does it Cost? Fertilizer Cost Do not Pasture from August to October Build Division Fence one hour per week Manure handling Free! Spread by cows
11	If They’re not on pasture ! I must feed them on Pad! What Does it Cost? 30 Min per day to feed (3 ½ hr/wk) Clean Pad 1 hr/wk Diesel Fuel 5 gal/wk Spread Manure: Est. 4 Hrs Per 60-70 days. Silage Wrap 2 rolls
12	FESCUE vs. HAY FERTILIZER $180.00 6 HRS LABOR 60.00 4 HRS TRCT 80.00 FENCE 100.00 TOTAL 420.00 FEED TRCT 560.00 CLEAN PAD 160.00 SPREAD 80.00 WRAP 108.00 HAY VALUE 1760.00 TOTAL 2668.00
13	Quality Analysis Fescue Grass
14	Stockpiled Fescue For the past 3 years we have been able to pasture 30 cows on 20 acres from mid October to First of Jan. Cows gain weight and increase body condition scores
15	Stockpiled Fescue
16	Stockpiled Fescue
17	This is how we harvest Fescue when it SNOWS!
18	Triticale. A fall planted forage Trical® is a hybrid of wheat and rye We “no till” from August to October Cattle love trical® haylage 35 head consume 2 4x4 rolls daily
19	Spring Forage Production Tritical 815 in March Tritical 102 in April Can be used as early pasture Trical® needs 50 to 100 lbs of available Nitrogen and 80 lbs of P and K
20	Trical 815 May 9, 2003
21	Trical® 102 at Harvest Trical® Harvested the first week of May We try to harvest trical® in the boot stage. Harvest last week of April to first 2 weeks of May The window of proper harvest is 3 to 5 days
22	Trical® Harvest We roll and wrap haylage at 40 to 65% moisture 6 Acres 2002 yielded 48 Rolls. Over 4000# dry matter per acre. Seed Cost $304.00 Silage wrap cost $2.00 per bale Nitrogen cost $84.60. 12 Ton Poultry litter $250.
23	Triticale Quality Analysis
24	PRO-TONTM Summer planted forage Mix of Brown Mid-Rib Sorghum sudangrass, forage peas and forage soybeans We “No till” seed immediately after harvest triticale Harvest as haylage every 35 days High yields Drought resistant
25	Pro-Ton 2002 Seeded “No Till” 3 acres into existing orchard grass immediately after harvesting Trical 815. Applied 50 lbs Nitrogen after each cutting Harvested 3 times (6-29, 8-7, 9-18) Yield 60 Rolls (4x4) 9000 pounds Dry Matter/acre Quality: Crude Protein 18.5 %, TDN 60 % Seed Cost $108.00 Fertilizer Cost $84.60
26	Trical® and Pro-Ton Ag Nation Products PO BX 30127 East Canton, Ohio 44730 330-488-2942 800-247-3276
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