Course offering: CSS 893 - Special Topics in Forage Management
August 14, 2025 - September 10, 2025
Class Type: Enrollment (Graded)
Component/Instruction Mode: Lecture/In Person
Instructor(s): Dr. Kim Cassida, Forage & Cover Crop Agronomist
Class Dates: 8/25/2025 - 12/7/2025
Lecture: 9:10-10:00 am T-Th (A155 PSSB)
Lab: 3:00 – 4:50 pm Wed (A111 PSSB)
Recitation: 1 hr/wk, time TBA
Forage crops, including pasture, hay, and silage, are important contributors to agricultural systems. By graduate student request, a special topics class on forage management is being offered in Fall 2025. This is a three-credit combined lecture-lab course that will offer an introduction to topics such as the role of forage crops in cropping and livestock production systems, plant species identification and selection for specific purposes, evaluating forage quality, establishment, soil health and fertility, pest control, harvest management for hay and silage, and grazing management. Plant physiology and agroecological concepts underlying management choices will be covered and key papers will be discussed. Each student will select a topic for in-depth exploration of the literature with a presentation to the group.
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