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SYLLABUS
SPRING 2007
ASSIGNMENTS
Reading assignments come mainly from handout materials distributed in lecture and laboratory. Additional reading assignments are in italics and set off with ** ** in the following list. If a subject seems unclear or if you wish to know more, relevant sections in the textbooks are also listed below as supplemental readings.
Abbreviations for sources of information on forages:
- BUL-217 = Cornell Extension Bulletin 217 by Fick and Mueller (1989)
- CORN = Cornell Field Crops and Soils Handbook (2nd Edition)
- FOR(I) = Forages Volume I (6th Edition) by Barnes et al. (2003)
- AMG = Alfalfa Management Guide (2004)
CALENDAR
Introduction
- January 22: Definitions, objectives, importance, resources: CORN (p. 5-7, p. 21-27); **World Wide Web National Soil Survey Handbook (read section 622.02)**.
- January 24: Forage crops and their characteristics: **CORN (p. 104-111)**; FOR(I) Chapters 16-37 as interested
- January 26: Historical perspective: FOR(I) Chapter 1
Forage Quality and Ruminant Nutrition: **BUL-217; FOR(I) Chapter 16**; FOR(I) Chapter 17
- January 29: Components
- January 31: Components (continued)
- February 2: Forage testing
- February 5: Managing forage quality
- February 7: Managing forage quality (continued)
Harvesting, Storage, and Feeding: **FOR(I) Chapter 19**
- February 9: Hay
- February 12: Hay (continued)
- February 14: Silage
- February 16: Silage (continued)
- February 19: Preservatives and high moisture grain: **CORN (p. 128-130)**
END FOR THE FIRST EXAM
Forage Production - Emphasis on Environmental and Physiological Aspects Important To Management: **FOR(I) Chapter 4; AMG**
- February 21: Carbon Metabolism and production
- February 23: Theoretical forage yield limits and applications
- February 26 (Monday): FIRST EXAM
- February 28: Water relations and production: CORN (p. 16-21); FOR(I) p. 118-122
- March 2: Nitrogen metabolism and production: **FOR(I) p. 84-87**
- March 5: Forage breeding - guest lecturer Dr. Don Viands: FOR(I) Chapter 15
- March 7: Fertilization and irrigation: **CORN (p. 117-119)**; CORN (p. 27-59); FOR(I) Chapter 12
- March 9: Fertilization and irrigation (continued)
- March 12: Pest management: **CORN (p. 120-126); FOR(I) Chapter 13**
- March 14: Plant growth regulation: FOR(I) p. 87-95
- March 16: Plant growth regulation (continued)
- March 19-23: SPRING BREAK
- March 26: Regrowth and harvest management: CORN (p. 127-128)
- March 28: Regrowth and harvest management (continued)
END FOR SECOND EXAM
- March 30: Winter survival: FOR(I) Chapter 5, especially ** p. 108-118**
- April 2: Winter survival (continued)
- April 4 (Wednesday): SECOND EXAM
- April 6: Winter survival (continued)
- April 9: Seeding and establishment of small-seeded crops: **CORN (p. 112-116), FOR(I) Chapter 11**
- April 11: Seeding and establishment (continued)
- April 13: Seeding and establishment (continued)
- April 16: Seeding and establishment (continued)
Resource Systems - Using Unique Attributes of Certain Crop and Land Resources
- April 18: Warm-season grasses, especially corn: **CORN (p. 8-9)**, CORN (p. 80-103, 155-156, 163-164)
- April 20: Corn as a feed crop
- April 23: Pastures and grazing: CORN (p. 130-135), **FOR(I) Chapter 20**; FOR(I) Chapter 17
- April 25: Pastures and grazing (continued)
- April 27: Pastures and grazing (continued)
- April 30: Range and range management: FOR(I) Chapter 14
- May 2: Future of forages
END FOR THIRD EXAM
- May 4 (Friday): THIRD EXAM
- The Final exam is scheduled for Thursday, May 17, 9:00-11:30a.m. Room assignments will be posted on March 30.
Last updated: 15 January 2007