By describing the differences among the many types of small grain cereal forages, and explaining how each type can best be used, the publication "Matching the Feed to the Need: A Guide to Cereal Forage for Profitable Dairy Management" helps forage growers and dairy producers get the best product to meet their needs. The publication identifies crop variety and harvest maturity as being key factors in the production and use of cereal forages, and highlights why choice of variety and harvest timing are highly interdependent. Some varieties are best for harvest at one stage of maturity; others are better for another.

The publication makes apparent why it is important for growers and dairy producers to know the differences among varieties and management strategies based on research trials and proven performance under their production conditions, and indicates why problems occur when a variety is used in ways for which it is not suited or when varieties are brought into a new area from other production areas without prior evaluation.

The primary message of "Matching the Feed to the Need: A Guide to Cereal Forage for Profitable Dairy Management" is that there are tremendous differences among small grain cereal forages, and that growers and dairy producers can profit nicely from knowing how to choose the ones that best meet their needs.

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