Pasture Management Guide for Livestock Producers. Completed Grant Report

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2018-01-01
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Russell, James
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Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
The Leopold Center is a research and education center on the campus of Iowa State University created to identify and reduce negative environmental and social impacts of farming and develop new ways to farm profitably while conserving natural resources.
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This publication provides an overview of pasture management: practices to increase production and returns by improving management on our grassland acres. This 2018 revision addresses new forage species and varieties, invasive weed species and weed control practices, and use of cover crops for grazing (Chapter 1); updates to the nutritional requirements for grazing livestock, prevention and management of sulfate, nitrate, tall fescue, and blue-green algae toxicities, and shade and stream management (Chapter 2); reviews management of mob-grazing, the use of grazing management to enhance wildlife habitat and other ecosystem services, online tools for balancing forages and livestock numbers in grazing systems, and electric fencing and livestock watering alternatives (Chapter 3); and incorporates updated nutritional requirements and forage options in the risk management chapter (Chapter 5).

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