Offered Papers Theme C: Delivering the Benefits from Grassland
Description
Management decisions for forage-beef cattle production systems are complex because of the many interrelated factors in the plant-animal complex. Evaluation of a system and effects of any changes to it are critical, however, because of the impact that any factor may have on the operation. A computer program to evaluate forage-beef cattle systems would enable producers to make more informed management decisions. Several such programs are available in Kansas, but they are not widely used because of their limited scope, user-friendliness and/or flexibility. Thus, an earlier program derived from the KYBEEF model by Bullock et al. (1983) was modified for Windows PC compatibility. Available information was used to develop additional grazing models to broaden applicability throughout the state, resulting in KansasGrazer®.
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Allocating Grazing Resources with KansasGrazer® and Making Management Decisions in a Stocker Operation
Management decisions for forage-beef cattle production systems are complex because of the many interrelated factors in the plant-animal complex. Evaluation of a system and effects of any changes to it are critical, however, because of the impact that any factor may have on the operation. A computer program to evaluate forage-beef cattle systems would enable producers to make more informed management decisions. Several such programs are available in Kansas, but they are not widely used because of their limited scope, user-friendliness and/or flexibility. Thus, an earlier program derived from the KYBEEF model by Bullock et al. (1983) was modified for Windows PC compatibility. Available information was used to develop additional grazing models to broaden applicability throughout the state, resulting in KansasGrazer®.
