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Do You Have Enough Forage?
The next time you drive or ride through your pasture checking livestock, water troughs, or fences, take the time to check your forage supply, too. Routinely checking forage supplies ensures timely decisions that would have ...
Reducing Livestock Losses to Toxic Plants
More than 100 species of toxic plants infest Texas rangelands. These plants affect ranch businesses directly by causing livestock death. They also have such indirect effects as lower conception rates and weaning weights, ...
Livestock Grazing Distribution: Considerations and Management
Grazing distribution is a major concern for livestock managers. Livestock do not graze randomly—they often prefer some grazing sites over others. This tendency can cause grazing distribution to be uneven over the range.
Rangeland Drought Management for Texans: Stocking Rate & Grazing Management
When dealing with drought, some of a livestock producer’s most important decisions concern stocking rates and grazing management. The effects of these decisions go far beyond survival of the current drought and can greatly ...
Grazing Systems for Profitable Ranching
For today’s rancher to remain in the ranching business, he has to be more efficient in his operation to overcome the “cost price squeeze� of livestock production. Increasing costs force the rancher to risk ...
Reference Guide for Texas Ranchers
Effective ranch management requires a tremendous amount of information. At any given time, a ranch manager may be making decisions concerning care and management of livestock, control of noxious plants, use of fire to ...
Forages for Beef Cattle
Pasture forages for beef cattle can be roughly divided into five categories—warm-season perennials, warm-season annuals, cool-season perennials, cool-season annuals and legumes for pastures. Each of these forage types ...
Interpreting Grazing Behavior
Forage quantity and quality are important factors in determining grazing animal performance. For this reason, livestock producers need reliable indicators of these factors. Direct measures of vegetation, such as clipping ...
Rangeland Drought Management for Texans: Toxic Range Plants
Toxic plants can pose a major threat to livestock during a drought. Animals consume more of these plants during drought because fewer alternative range plants are available.