Track 2-11: Plant Nutrition and Nutrient Cycling
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Publication Date
2013
Location
Sydney, Australia
Description
Pasture management may affect cattle diet. Post-grazing stubble height is a pasture structural characteristic intrinsically linked to forage quantity and quality. Stubble height also indicates forage utilization rate, and as a result, affects nutrient pathway return (excreta or litter) and ultimately, nutrient cycling. Cattle excreta deposition affects soil chemical and physical characteristics (Carran and Theobald 2000). Slow release of nutrients from cattle dung, however, delays nutrient bioavailability for subsequent forage growth (Haynes and Williams 1993). This study evaluated how different post-grazing stubble heights on elephant grass (Pennisetum purpureum Schum.) pastures may affect cattle dung decomposition and nutrient release.
Citation
Dubeux, José C. B. Jr.; Saraiva, Felipe M.; dos Santos, Mércia V. F.; de Mello, Alexandre C. L.; Teixeira, Vicente Imbrosi; and de Freitas, Erinaldo Viana, "Cattle Fecal Decomposition on Pennisetum purpureum Schum. Pastures Managed under Different Post-Grazing Stubble Heights" (2013). IGC Proceedings (1985-2023). 22.
(URL: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/igc/22/2-11/22)
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Cattle Fecal Decomposition on Pennisetum purpureum Schum. Pastures Managed under Different Post-Grazing Stubble Heights
Sydney, Australia
Pasture management may affect cattle diet. Post-grazing stubble height is a pasture structural characteristic intrinsically linked to forage quantity and quality. Stubble height also indicates forage utilization rate, and as a result, affects nutrient pathway return (excreta or litter) and ultimately, nutrient cycling. Cattle excreta deposition affects soil chemical and physical characteristics (Carran and Theobald 2000). Slow release of nutrients from cattle dung, however, delays nutrient bioavailability for subsequent forage growth (Haynes and Williams 1993). This study evaluated how different post-grazing stubble heights on elephant grass (Pennisetum purpureum Schum.) pastures may affect cattle dung decomposition and nutrient release.
