Your Success Comes From Pasture Plant Structure and Quality and Animals’ Grazing Skills
Beth Burritt
On Pasture
In general, the more livestock eat, the more weight they gain or milk they produce. Thus, forage intake is key to animal performance. Agronomists manage for plant density and height to ensure livestock maximize intake. While this plant structure emphasisis important, intake is not dictated by structure alone. Forage quality, current nutritional state, and experience also affect forage intake by livestock.
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