Calibrating Forage Seeding Equipment

Abstract

Instructions on how to calibrate forage seeding equipment. Originally written by C. G. Chambliss (deceased) and M.B. Adjei (deceased) in June 1999. Original EDIS publication date April 2002. This major revision November 2018 by Marcelo Wallau, Joao Vendramini, and Ed Jennings. The information in this document was adapted from Production and Utilization of Pasture and Forages in North Carolina, Technical Bulletin 305, North Carolina Agricultural Research Service, North Carolina State University and is published with their permission. This publication is also a part of the Florida Forage Handbook, an electronic publication of the Agronomy Department. Visit the EDIS website at https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu for the currently supported version of this publication.

Keywords

• Seeding
• Equipment Calibration
• Pasture Establishment
• Planting