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Relation of height of clipping or grazing to yield, consumption, and sustained production of certain native grasses
Abstract
Practical information on pastures, pasture grasses, and utilization of forage is much in demand. As pointed out by Allred (1941), the importance of livestock production at present assumes the deepest significance of historic time. A large part of livestock products must come from operators of native grasslands. The task of maintaining these grazing lands in a high state of productivity is fundamentally based upon a knowledge of the vegetation; in fact, a knowledge of native plants and forage conditions is vital to the success- ful management of pasture or range. Conservation of range land can be accomplished only by attention to correct grazing. Native prairie has been the home of grazing animals for un- told centuries. Prairie plants are eminently adapted to grazing, and conservative grazing is little or no more harm- ful to native pastures than is total protection. But to maintain production, moderate grazing must be practiced. Forage production from a pasture in good condition may be several times as great as from one in an advanced degree of degeneration. "Not only is grass important in pasture.
Subject Area
Botany
Recommended Citation
Darland, Raymond W, "Relation of height of clipping or grazing to yield, consumption, and sustained production of certain native grasses" (1946). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAIDP13724.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAIDP13724