T he Annual Southwest Forage Field Day will be held beginning at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 28, at the VA Tech Research Farm in Glade Spring, Virginia. We will serve supper, so please call 276-676-6309 by Tuesday, Aug. 26, if you plan to attend. There is no cost for the meeting.

The program will include the following; research plot tours and presentations on various topics as described below. The program will begin at 5 p.m. with a tour of the regional corn silage hybrid trial (55 hybrids from 11 companies). This year has been a great corn growing year for many corn producers due to better weather conditions than last year. The hybrids at the research station look really good at this point. We also established a new orchardgrass and tall fescue variety test last fall that includes 15 orcha

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