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    • 2. Forage conservation
    • 3. Animal nutrition and feeding
    • 4. Water management and supply
    • 5. Fertility and breeding
    • 6. Calving, calf rearing & young stock management
    • 7. Milking and milk hygiene/ handling
    • 8. Animal housing
    • 9. Animal health
    • 10. Hoof Care
    • 11. Planning, starting or expansion of a dairy farm
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    • 13. Mechanization of the dairy farm
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2.2

Estimating ideal time of harvesting

Level 3 - Extension Workers, Input & Service Providers
Introduction
1. You will learn about...
2. Intoduction
3. Forage quality: Grasses, Alfalfa and Maize
4. Grasses: Best stage for harvesting grasses
5. Drop in grass quality over time
6. Part of a grass plant
7. Selection of crop and stage of harvest
8. Factors affecting the choice of harvesting stage
9. Young grass is a source of nutrients
10. Napier grass - stage of harvesting
11. Napier grass silage
12. Steps in making grass silage
13. Good vs bad silage
14. Good vs bad silage cont...
15.Effects of stage of harvest when making silage
16. Stage of harvest for hay making
17. Energy and digestibility of maturing pasture
18. Hay Making - drying time
19. Harvesting stage for maize silage
20. Access the crop on dry matter (DM) yield
21. The maize kernel at 30-35% dry matter
22. The kernel milk line
23. Determining dry matter in maize crop
24. Stubble height
25. Machinery used for harvesting maize
26. Machinery used for chopping maize
27. Machinery with kernel crushers
28. Legumes
29. Making hay from Alfalfa
30. Making hay from Alfalfa cont...
31. Whole plant analyses of Alfalfa
32. Alfalfa hay - the nutrients are in the leaves