Offered Papers Theme A: Efficient Production from Grassland
Description
Putting low-cost gain on yearling cattle with forages is a significant agricultural activity in the Southern Great Plains. The primary forage system within the area has two components: winter wheat (Triticum aesitivum) grazed from fall through spring (Redmon et al., 1995), and warm-season perennial grasses for summer grazing. This system has significant gaps (Fig. 1) when high-quality forage is not readily available (September-November and May-June). Introduced cool-season perennial grasses have longer growing seasons than wheat, and could help fill these gaps. This experiment tested the function of an introduced cool-season perennial grass, new to the southern Great Plains, in a stocker production system involving intensive grazing of paddocks.
Citation
Northup, B. K.; Phillips, W. A.; and Mayeux, H. S., "Graze-Out Plus: Filling Forage Gaps in the Southern Great Plains, USA" (2023). IGC Proceedings (1993-2023). 365.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/igc/20/themeA/365
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Graze-Out Plus: Filling Forage Gaps in the Southern Great Plains, USA
Putting low-cost gain on yearling cattle with forages is a significant agricultural activity in the Southern Great Plains. The primary forage system within the area has two components: winter wheat (Triticum aesitivum) grazed from fall through spring (Redmon et al., 1995), and warm-season perennial grasses for summer grazing. This system has significant gaps (Fig. 1) when high-quality forage is not readily available (September-November and May-June). Introduced cool-season perennial grasses have longer growing seasons than wheat, and could help fill these gaps. This experiment tested the function of an introduced cool-season perennial grass, new to the southern Great Plains, in a stocker production system involving intensive grazing of paddocks.
