Track 1-12: Managing Seasonality in Grassland Quality and Quantity
Publication Date
2013
Location
Sydney, Australia
Description
Because rice consumption has decreased in Japan, the number of abandoned paddy fields has increased. Some of the abandoned paddy fields are being used for livestock grazing, effectively using the abandoned fields and reducing the production costs on livestock farms. Such grazing may use an integrated grazing system of scattered small pastures where each of the small abandoned paddy fields scattered in a given agriculture area is defined as one grazing yard, and a herd consisting of two or three head of cattle is moved from one grazing yard to another. However, because the number of abandoned paddy fields has increased, it may be possible to have cattle grazing in larger fields made by combining multiple abandoned paddy fields (Shindo and Tejima 2006). Here we examined the nutritional status of Japanese Black breeding cows that stayed in larger-sized abandoned paddy fields to graze from spring to autumn.
Citation
Ishida, Motohiko; Matsumoto, Naoki; Maki, Yojiro; Tanimoto, Jyunichi; Takahashi, Kohei; Asano, Keigo; and Ogino, Mizuho, "The Nutritional Status of Japanese Black Breeding Cows Grazed in a Larger Abandoned Paddy Field" (2013). IGC Proceedings (1985-2023). 15.
(URL: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/igc/22/1-12/15)
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The Nutritional Status of Japanese Black Breeding Cows Grazed in a Larger Abandoned Paddy Field
Sydney, Australia
Because rice consumption has decreased in Japan, the number of abandoned paddy fields has increased. Some of the abandoned paddy fields are being used for livestock grazing, effectively using the abandoned fields and reducing the production costs on livestock farms. Such grazing may use an integrated grazing system of scattered small pastures where each of the small abandoned paddy fields scattered in a given agriculture area is defined as one grazing yard, and a herd consisting of two or three head of cattle is moved from one grazing yard to another. However, because the number of abandoned paddy fields has increased, it may be possible to have cattle grazing in larger fields made by combining multiple abandoned paddy fields (Shindo and Tejima 2006). Here we examined the nutritional status of Japanese Black breeding cows that stayed in larger-sized abandoned paddy fields to graze from spring to autumn.
