Satellite Symposium 3: Pastoral Systems
Description
Grazing is an essential management practice for maintaining the nature conservation value of lowland semi-natural neutral grassland to control succession and create different faunal habitats via structural heterogeneity within the pasture (Duffey et al., 1974). However, there is a paucity of information on what would constitute a sustainable grazing intensity that will deliver the wildlife objectives and what the consequences of this management would be on growth rate of livestock and overall pasture output. An experiment was designed to quantify the ecological and agronomic consequences of imposing different grazing intensities on species-rich neutral grassland. The results will provide sward-based criteria for the integration of such species-rich grassland into commercial livestock systems.
Citation
Griffith, B. A. and Tallowin, J. R.B., "The Performance of Cattle on Lowland Species-Rich Neutral Grassland at Three Contrasting Grazing Pressures" (2023). IGC Proceedings (1993-2023). 18.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/igc/20/satellitesymposium3/18
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The Performance of Cattle on Lowland Species-Rich Neutral Grassland at Three Contrasting Grazing Pressures
Grazing is an essential management practice for maintaining the nature conservation value of lowland semi-natural neutral grassland to control succession and create different faunal habitats via structural heterogeneity within the pasture (Duffey et al., 1974). However, there is a paucity of information on what would constitute a sustainable grazing intensity that will deliver the wildlife objectives and what the consequences of this management would be on growth rate of livestock and overall pasture output. An experiment was designed to quantify the ecological and agronomic consequences of imposing different grazing intensities on species-rich neutral grassland. The results will provide sward-based criteria for the integration of such species-rich grassland into commercial livestock systems.
