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Measuring Forage with a Falling Plate Meter

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SPES-36P

Authors as Published

Jeannie Layton-Dudding, Extension Agent, Giles County, and reviewed by Kathryn Payne, Applied Forage Systems Specialist, Southern Piedmont Agricultural Research and Extension Center (first published June 2018, last reviewed November 2023)

This resource is available in video format only.

This is a Graze 300 Virginia video which is part of an Extension initiative to enable Virginia farmers to achieve 300 days of livestock grazing by facilitating better pasture management and environmental stewardship. In this video clip, Jeanie Layton-Dudding, Extension Agent with Virginia Cooperative Extension, demonstrates how to use a falling plate meter measure the amount of forage available in a pasture and to plan your winter feeding management. For more information about Graze 300 VA and Virginia Cooperative Extension, please visit Graze 300. Funding for the video was generously provided by the Agua Fund to encourage sustainable resilient agriculture and the conservation of important natural resources.


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Publication Date

November 2, 2023