Manitoba Agriculture and Food and Turtle Mountain Conservation District, with financial assistance from Covering New Ground, established two demonstration sites in the Killarney area. The focus of the project was to measure the effects of hog manure on the yield and quality of tame and native pastures, and to look at these pastures ability to support grazing livestock. Complementary focus was placed on evaluating crop nutrient uptake by conducting soil tests before fertilization and following the growing season. The tame pasture consisted of a tall fescue- alfalfa mixture. The native pasture had been sod-seeded with alfalfa in 1999, but was dominated by native grass species. Forage clippings were taken on August 20-21. Forage quality was consistently better when fertilized. Energy content (measured in Total Digestible Nutrient) was also greater when pastures were fertilized. Soil tests taken following the growing season showed that soil N and P were, in most cases; lower than pre-fertilization soil N and P. This indicates that the actively growing vegetation had taken up the applied nutrients. Manure also had a positive effect on forage yield and forage quality. The yield increases in particular had an effect on the carrying capacity of fertilized pastures vs. unfertilized pastures. Actively growing forages use manure nutrients well, as indicated by the post-growing season deficiencies in both soil N and P. Other benefits of using liquid hog manure on forage crops are the expansion of the practical spreading season from traditional spring and fall demand peaks. As forages have much higher N and P requirements than most annual crops they also allow a reduction in spread acres required.