{"id":119729,"date":"2021-11-04T09:35:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T13:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=119729"},"modified":"2021-11-04T09:35:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T13:35:41","slug":"forage-after-a-frost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=119729","title":{"rendered":"Forage After a Frost"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We\u2019re finally seeing frost this week, so here\u2019s a reminder of some of the things we need to consider when either harvesting or grazing after a frost:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Grazing clovers and alfalfa after a hard freeze (25F or below) can cause bloat<\/li><li>Grazing sorghum\/sudangrass\/sudex and stands of johnsongrass after frost can cause prussic acid poisoning<\/li><li>Frosted tall fescue can have&nbsp;<em>increased<\/em>&nbsp;feed value due to the conversion of carbohydrates into sugars<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Harvesting forages for dry hay or baleage will nullify these effects (and to some extent even the benefit to tall fescue) but beware that fermentation slows in cold weather.<br>&nbsp;<br>For more information:<br>&nbsp;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/cornell.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=8499564e5e2f77e1ff6260099&amp;id=d7b3ea8efa&amp;e=0427a769c1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Precautions for Harvesting Forages After a Frost<\/a><br>&nbsp;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/cornell.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=8499564e5e2f77e1ff6260099&amp;id=cc19a9a400&amp;e=0427a769c1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Freezing Effects on Forages<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re finally seeing frost this week, so here\u2019s a reminder of some of the things we need to consider when either harvesting or grazing after a frost: Grazing clovers and alfalfa after a hard freeze (25F or below) can cause bloat Grazing sorghum\/sudangrass\/sudex and stands of johnsongrass after frost can cause prussic acid poisoning Frosted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23679,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agfarming","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}