{"id":219,"date":"2013-11-05T14:24:33","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T19:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/?p=219"},"modified":"2013-11-05T14:24:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T19:24:33","slug":"winter-annual-forage-costs-for-2013-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/2013\/11\/winter-annual-forage-costs-for-2013-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Annual Forage Costs for 2013-2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Dr. Curt Lacy, UGA Extension Livestock Economist<\/p>\n<p>The cost to plant winter annuals this year is projected to be the about the same this year as last.\u00a0 While fertilizer prices are expected to decline in coming months, seed costs have actually increased slightly this year.\u00a0 As a result, establishment costs will be slightly higher than in 2012.\u00a0 However, if fertilizer prices do decline, the total per acre cost could be lower than 2012-2013 winter annuals.<\/p>\n<p>In the coming weeks, UGA will be publishing projected winter annual budgets for 2013-2014.\u00a0 These budgets will have specific fertilizer and seeding rates for various production systems as well as the associated fuel, repair, and labor costs.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, I have summarized our projected total per acre costs.\u00a0 These results are presented in the accompanying chart.\u00a0 It should be noted that these budgets assume planting certified seed and applying nitrogen, phosphorous, potash and lime according to soil-test on medium fertility soils.\u00a0 In other words, your actual costs could be more or less depending on your specific situation.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to seeded budgets, two budgets were also prepared that reflect stockpiled Bermuda or fescue forages.\u00a0 Producers are encouraged to not only look at the total cost per acre, but to also consider the amount of forage produced and what that means on a dollars per gazing day basis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/files\/2013\/11\/Winter-Annual-Forage-Costs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-220\" alt=\"Winter-Annual-Forage-Costs\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/files\/2013\/11\/Winter-Annual-Forage-Costs.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/files\/2013\/11\/Winter-Annual-Forage-Costs.jpg 960w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/files\/2013\/11\/Winter-Annual-Forage-Costs-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/files\/2013\/11\/Winter-Annual-Forage-Costs-184x138.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Dr. Curt Lacy, UGA Extension Livestock Economist The cost to plant winter annuals this year is projected to be the about the same this year as last.\u00a0 While fertilizer prices are expected to decline in coming months, seed costs have actually increased slightly this year.\u00a0 As a result, establishment costs will be slightly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economics","category-hay-forages","category-livestock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}