March 2013 Blog Posts (2)
Scheduled maintenance
Just wanted to give everyone a heads up that MING needs to perform some simple but necessary maintenance on this site on Wednesday, March 27. They will need to take the site down at 10 pm Pacific for about 3 hours during which they will simply show a message asking folks to check back later. Thanks in advance for your patience while they tune up the site!
Added by Peter Smallidge on March 21, 2013 at 5:34pm — No Comments
Reducing forest density for acceptable forage growth
During the "silvopasture day course" trainings last August, we expressed the need to reduce forest stand stocking levels to about 60 sq. ft./acre of basal area (approximately 50% relative density, depending on the stand type) in order to achieve "good" forage productivity of the more shade tolerant cool season grasses. For more information on this, refer to the .pdf file attachment titled "Creating Quality Silvopastures" from the August blog post on the day courses - or read the section on…
ContinueAdded by Brett Chedzoy on March 15, 2013 at 3:00pm — No Comments
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