Economic Potential of Substituting Legumes for Synthetic Nitrogen in Warm Season Perennial Grasses used for Stocker Cattle Grazing [PDF]
Stocker cattle grazing warm season perennial grasses is an important economic activity in the southern Great Plains. Substantial increases in the price of nitrogen fertilizer is negatively affecting forage producers’ profitability.
Biermacher, Jon T. +8 more
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Soil Properties and their Influence on Grassland Production under Low Input and Organic Farming Conditions [PDF]
, 2006 End of project reportThis project set out to identify soil properties that most influence grassland production under low mineral nitrogen input conditions. Sixteen farms were selected in Counties Limerick and Clare and the soil sampled. Soil physical and
Breen, J. +3 more
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Rangeland as a common property resource: contrasting insights from communal areas of central Eastern Cape Province, South Africa [PDF]
, 2007 This paper explores the grazing management systems in operation in communal areas of central Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, through two contrasting case studies from the region.
Barrett, Hazel R., Bennett, James
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Scientific ReportsStudying the spatial and temporal changes of grassland soil organic carbon (SOC) is helpful in promote the management of regional ecosystem carbon sinks. Grazing is one of the main ways of rational utilization of grassland.
Yazhou Liu +3 more
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An agent-based model of cattle grazing toxic Geyer's larkspur.
PLoS ONE, 2018 By killing cattle and otherwise complicating management, the many species of larkspur (Delphinium spp.) present a serious, intractable, and complex challenge to livestock grazing management in the western United States.
Kevin E Jablonski +2 more
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Frontiers in Environmental ScienceGrazing is a main land use of natural grasslands in the world, which has both positive and negative impact on plant community structure and ecosystem functioning.
Duobin Wang, Wenqiang Ding
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Unravelling the economic and environmental tradeoffs of reducing sediment movement from grazed pastures [PDF]
An undesirable consequence of grazing activities in eastern Australia is the quantity of sediment emptying into the Great Barrier Reef Lagoon. One of the challenges to reducing sediment loads stems from the lack of private incentives to improve land ...
Donaghy, Peter +2 more
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Mixed grazing systems benefit both upland biodiversity and livestock production.
PLoS ONE, 2014 BackgroundWith world food demand expected to double by 2050, identifying farming systems that benefit both agricultural production and biodiversity is a fundamentally important challenge for the 21(st) century, but this has to be achieved in a ...
Mariecia D Fraser +3 more
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Habitat Associations of Sympatric Violet-Feeding Fritillaries (Euptoieta, Speyeria, Boloria) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in Tallgrass Prairie [PDF]
, 2017 At 106 tallgrass prairies in the midwestern USA, 18,055 individuals of six fritillary species (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) were counted in 552.9 hr and 987.1 kill of transect survey effort from 14 June to 13 September during 1988-96. The relative abundance
Swengel, Ann B
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The Economics of Rotational Grazing in the Gulf Coast Region: Costs, Returns, and Labor Considerations, Phase II [PDF]
Profitability and labor associated with rotational grazing at three stocking rates and continuous grazing at a medium stocking rate are compared. On a per-acre basis, profits are lowest for low stocking rate rotational grazing.
Blouin, David +6 more
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