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Forage Management Publications

Hay Information

• CR-711: Hay Quality, Sampling and Testing

• CR-668: Reducing Harvest & Storage Losses in Alfalfa

• B-721: Hay Feeding Strategies for Horse Farms

Alfalfa Management and Variety Selection

• CR-646: Managing Alfalfa During Drought

• Managing Alfalfa With Limited Irrigation (1)
  Hay Market Newsletter - August 2011

• Managing Alfalfa With Limited Irrigation (2)
  Hay Market Newsletter - May 2012

• CR-644: Assessing Alfalfa Stands for Renovation

• CR-654: Selecting Alfalfa Varieties for New Mexico

• CR-633: Using a Computer Application to Predict Irrigated Alfalfa Yield

• Guide A-333: User Manual for Alfalfa Yield Predictor

• Guide A-129: Nitrogen Fixation by Legumes

• Guide A-337: Roundup Ready Alfalfa Management and Stand Removal in New Mexico

• Guide A-336: Managing Roundup Ready and Conventional or Organic Alfalfa Hay in Nearby Fields in New Mexico

Pests of Alfalfa and Other Hay

• Guide H-158: How to Collect and Send Specimens for Disease Diagnosis

• Guide A-415: Leaf, Stem, and Stripe Rust Diseases of Wheat

• Guide A-229: Phymatotrichum Root Rot

• Guide A-326: Downy Mildew on Alfalfa

• Guide A-334: Beet Armyworm in New Mexico Hay

• Guide A-335: Variegated Cutworm in New Mexico Hay

• CR-659: Whitefringed Beetle in New Mexico Alfalfa

• Guide A-338: Alfalfa Weevil Control Options in New Mexico

• Guide A-339: Alfalfa Integrated Pest Management: Aphids

• Guide A-325: Managing Weeds in Alfalfa

• Circular 698: Noxious and Troublesome Weeds of New Mexico

Other Forages & Silage Information

• Guide A-416: Corn Plant Density Effects on Silage Quality

• Guide A-332: Sorghum Forages for New Mexico

• Western Forage Sorghum Production Guide

• CR-630: Small Grain Forages for New Mexico

• CR-642: Silage Microbial Inoculants

• CR-665: Survey of Silage Crop Nutritive Value in New Mexico and West Texas

Pastures and Grazing Systems

• CR-695: Forage Selection and Establishment for Irrigated Pastures and Hay in New Mexico

• CR-586: Irrigated Pasture Management in New Mexico

• CR-696: Perennial Forage Species Selection

• CR-697: Annual Forage Species Selection

• CR-649: Developing A Grazing System for Arid Climates

• Guide A-340: Weed Management in Irrigated Grass Pastures

• CR-374: New Mexico Range Plants

• Other Rangeland & Livestock Publications

• Guide A-609: Intercropping Forage Brassicas

Other Forages

• Guide A-417: Millet Production

• Teff: Recent Observations in the Southwest

• Guide A-311: Sainfoin Production in New Mexico

• Guide A-150: Cover Cropping in Arid Systems

Anti-Quality Factors

• Guide B-807: Nitrate Poisoning of Livestock

• Guide B-808: Prussic Acid Poisoning of Livestock

• Guide B-809: Grass Tetany in Livestock

• CR-531: Livestock Poisoning Plants of NM Rangelands

• Guide B-709: Milkweed Poisoning of Horses

• Guide B-720: Potential Poisoning of Horses Consuming Sorghum, Sudangrass, and Sorghum-sudangrass Hybrid Forages

• CR-536: Blister Beetles in Alfalfa

Seed and Inoculation

• Guide A-131: Certified Seed

• Guide A-130: Inoculation of Legumes

NMSU Research Publications

• RR-787: Alfalfa Evapotranspiration in Albuquerque's South Valley

• BL-795: Broadleaf Weed Control in Spring-seeded Alfalfa

• BL-796: Perennial Cool-season Forage Legume Performance in Diverse Soil Moisture

• BL-799: Harvest Timing and Byproduct Addition Effects on Corn and Forage Sorghum Silage

• RR-766: Furrow Irrigated Alfalfa Yield Not Affected by Different Seeding Rates

• RR-772: Observations on How Cowpea Aphid Affects Alfalfa

• BL-802: Pigeonpea and Cowpea Forage Yield and Nutritive Value

• BL-810: Tepary Bean Forage Nutritive Value

Crop Variety Testing in New Mexico

• Variety Test Results
  Includes alfalfa, corn, and sorghum forages

• CR-654: Alfalfa in New Mexico and the Alfalfa Breeding Program