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Effects of frequent clipping upon sustained yield of seven Midwestern pasture grasses
Abstract
A knowledge of the habits of growth of individual grasses composing prairie and pasture and their behavior under grazing is not only of much scientific interest but also of great practical importance. Prairie plants are eminently adapted to grazing. Native prairie has been the home of grazing animals for almost countless centuries. Moderate grazing is little or no more harmful to native vegetation than is total protection. But when one observes the vast number of low- grade pastures in the western portion of the true prairie in: Nebraska he is appalled at the lack of knowledge of native plants and of forage conditions that must have contributed to so great destruction. As a student in plant ecology I was shown the range condition classes of the degenerating prairie excellent, good, fair, and poor - all on the same soil, in the same site, and separated often only by barbed wire fences. With each range class in descending order, the bluestems (Andropogon scoparius and A. furcatus), needle grass (Stipa spartea), and other excellent forage grasses became fewer and weaker until finally they had all disappeared (Voigt & Weaver 1951).
Subject Area
Botany
Recommended Citation
Dale, Edward E., "Effects of frequent clipping upon sustained yield of seven Midwestern pasture grasses" (1950). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAIDP13723.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAIDP13723