Manejo de Pequenas Áreas

If you are interested in grazing management its first important to know what grass you are growing, this will determine when you should graze and how long depending also on the grazing animal. These guides and factsheets below will help you learn how to identify your grass and how to graze accordingly. 

• Colorado Forage Guide: Guide created by CSU to help landowners learn how to identify common grasses, reseeding, and grazing management guidelines
• Dryland Pasture Condition Assessment and Guidelines for Small Acreages: Factsheet to learn how to assess your pasture for reseeding and grazing, factors to consider when applying rotational grazing, and record keeping.
• Grass Response to Grazing Presentation: A powerpoint with informative pictures that show how overgrazing and best grazing practices affect the grass root system and regrowth.
• Paddock Paradise for Horses: Learn how to reduce grazing pressure on your land and have your horses get exercise with this unique paddock design.
• CSU Management of Forage Plants Class: Take a non-credit discounted online class to learn more about grazing management, reseeding, and grow

If you are interested in reseeding it's important to know the cost, equipment, if you even need to reseed and the best of the year to reseed if you have a dryland pasture. The guides and documents below will help you learn how to reseed correctly.

• NRCS Small Acreage Management Newsletter - Thinking of Reseeding a Pasture: Information on what you should consider before reseeding
• Grass Seeding Plan for Colorado Small Acreages: A fact sheet that describes when to reseed, equipment, and maintenance. 
• Pasture Establishment and Renovation: A worksheet to help you determine the cost of reseeding your pasture and the types of seed you should purchase depending on use and soil needs
• Pawnee Buttes Seed Guide to Grasses: A full guide of all the common grass types in Colorado for various uses (forage, lawn, reclamation, and restoration) and more detailed descriptions of each grass.

• Colorado Hay Diretório: Certified Weed Free Hay
• CSU Hay/Forage Testing: Test nutrients in corn silage, sorghum, millet, alfalfa, etc.
• Armazenamento de feno: Learn the best practices to store hay
• CSU Land Rental and Custom Rates: Learn about the average cost of hay, leasing land, contractors, labor, etc. for each year

• Gestão de estrume para pequenas áreas: Learn how to manage your manure to reduce weeds, nutrient runoff, increase nutrients within the soil, and protect your animals health.
• Best Practices for Manure Utilization: A more in depth packet on how to use manure to meet your soils nutrient needs.
• FDA Biological Soil Amendments of Animal Origin: Learn how to keep yourself safe when applying manure to gardens or on plants for food consumption.

• Small Acreage Irrigation: Learn about all the different types of irrigation, how to understand your water needs, and improve your irrigation efficiency
• Irrigation Ditches and their Operation: Learn how ditches work and how to contact ditch companies
• Limited Irrigation Management: Learn about changing irrigation frequency and time when in a drought or with limited water
• Irrigation Scheduling: The Water Balance Approach: Learn how to schedule the amount and frequency of water for various forage and crops.
• Fertilizing Cool Season Grasses and Grass/Legume Mixtures: Learn how to apply the right amount of fertilizer based on your soil needs
• CSU Soil Testing Lab: Send your soil samples to the CSU Soil Testing lab to learn if and how much you should fertilize depending on forage type and needs.

• Distrito de Weed do Condado de Larimer: Contact the Weed District to set up a site visit, learn about pesticide application rates, purchase pesticides, and get a discount on a pesticide contractor if within the weed district boundary.
• Larimer County Weed District Contractor List
• Guia de manejo de ervas daninhas: Learn the best management plan to remove noxious and most common weeds in Larimer County
• Estes Park Noxious Weeds: Information on how Estes park land owners can access resources and attend events to learn more about how to manage noxious weeds.
• Sprayer Calibration Calculator: Calibrate your equipment each year to have the best herbicide application rates.
• How to Read the Label: Learn how to read herbicide labels to understand the risks, disposal and storing practices, reseeding post application, and if it can be mixed with other products.
• Weed Management in Organic Cropping Systems: Learn about how to reduce weeds using various weed management suppression practices and organic herbicides.
• Organic Weed Management 
• CSU Management of Noxious Weed Class: Take a discounted non-credit online class with CSU to learn more about weed management
• Kochia and Russian Thistle
• Verbasco
• Cardo do Canadá
• Musk Thistle
• Cheatgrass and Wildfire

• Guia CSU para Plantas Venenosas: A database of all the poisonous plants in Colorado and the symptoms that various livestock animals show when they consume the plants.
• Colorado Poisonous Plants for Horses: A pamphlet on the top toxic plants for horses and their symptoms 
• A Guide to Plant Poisoning in North America Book: A in depth book to all the plants in North America that can poison livestock

• Fencing with Wildlife in Mind: Learn how to create fencing that will help move wildlife (elk, deer, snakes, turkeys, etc.) through your property instead of trapping/harming them
• Managing Prairie Dogs
• Managing Moles
• Managing Voles
• Managing Ground Squirrels
• Native Shrubs for Colorado Landscapes
• Native Trees for Colorado Landscapes
• Gramíneas Nativas
• Native Herbaceous Perennials for Colorado Landscapes
• Low-Water Native Plants for Colorado Gardens