Dale Strickler
Managing Pasture
A Complete Guide to Building Healthy Pasture for Grass-Based Meat & Dairy Animals
Dale Strickler
Managing Pasture
A Complete Guide to Building Healthy Pasture for Grass-Based Meat & Dairy Animals
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This in-depth handbook to improving pasture quality and soil health guides farmers seeking to establish sustainable, profitable grass-based livestock operations.
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This in-depth handbook to improving pasture quality and soil health guides farmers seeking to establish sustainable, profitable grass-based livestock operations.
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Produktdetails
- Produktdetails
- Verlag: Workman Publishing
- Seitenzahl: 288
- Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2019
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 257mm x 206mm x 21mm
- Gewicht: 986g
- ISBN-13: 9781635860702
- ISBN-10: 1635860709
- Artikelnr.: 53067676
- Verlag: Workman Publishing
- Seitenzahl: 288
- Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2019
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 257mm x 206mm x 21mm
- Gewicht: 986g
- ISBN-13: 9781635860702
- ISBN-10: 1635860709
- Artikelnr.: 53067676
Dale Strickler is the author of Managing Pasture and The Drought-Resilient Farm. He is a leader in the soil health movement and an agronomist for Green Cover Seed, the nation's top cover crop-specific seed company. Strickler holds degrees in agronomy from Kansas State University and has taught at the college level for 15 years. He farms and ranches cattle in Kansas.
Introduction: The Past & Promise of Pasture
Part 1: Increasing Pasture Production & Profitability
1 What Makes a Pastured Livestock Operation Profitable
2 Why Grazing Plants Behave the Way They Do
3 How Animals Digest & Utilize Forage
4 Improving Pasture Productivity: Minerals, Water & Sunlight
5 Providing Year-Round Grazing
6 Determining a Proper Stocking Rate
7 Grazing Systems & Management
Part 2: Selecting & Managing Pasture Plants
8 Perennial Warm-Season Grasses
9 Perennial Cool-Season Grasses, Legumes & Forbs
10 Annual Forages
11 Silvopastures & Browse Plants
Part 3: Solving Practical Problems of Pasture Management
12 Pasture Fencing
13 Developing Drinking Water
14 Dealing with Too Much or Too Little Water
Part 4: Managing Pasture for Different Livestock Species
15 Beef & Dairy Cattle
16 Sheep & Goats
17 Horses
18 Swing & Poultry
Part 5: Increasing the Ecosystem Services of Pasture
19 Honey Bees & Other Pollinators
20 Wildlife
21 Pastures, Climate, Water & People
Conclusion: Final Words of Pasture Wisdom
Glossary
Metric Conversion Charts
Resources
Index
Part 1: Increasing Pasture Production & Profitability
1 What Makes a Pastured Livestock Operation Profitable
2 Why Grazing Plants Behave the Way They Do
3 How Animals Digest & Utilize Forage
4 Improving Pasture Productivity: Minerals, Water & Sunlight
5 Providing Year-Round Grazing
6 Determining a Proper Stocking Rate
7 Grazing Systems & Management
Part 2: Selecting & Managing Pasture Plants
8 Perennial Warm-Season Grasses
9 Perennial Cool-Season Grasses, Legumes & Forbs
10 Annual Forages
11 Silvopastures & Browse Plants
Part 3: Solving Practical Problems of Pasture Management
12 Pasture Fencing
13 Developing Drinking Water
14 Dealing with Too Much or Too Little Water
Part 4: Managing Pasture for Different Livestock Species
15 Beef & Dairy Cattle
16 Sheep & Goats
17 Horses
18 Swing & Poultry
Part 5: Increasing the Ecosystem Services of Pasture
19 Honey Bees & Other Pollinators
20 Wildlife
21 Pastures, Climate, Water & People
Conclusion: Final Words of Pasture Wisdom
Glossary
Metric Conversion Charts
Resources
Index
Introduction: The Past & Promise of Pasture
Part 1: Increasing Pasture Production & Profitability
1 What Makes a Pastured Livestock Operation Profitable
2 Why Grazing Plants Behave the Way They Do
3 How Animals Digest & Utilize Forage
4 Improving Pasture Productivity: Minerals, Water & Sunlight
5 Providing Year-Round Grazing
6 Determining a Proper Stocking Rate
7 Grazing Systems & Management
Part 2: Selecting & Managing Pasture Plants
8 Perennial Warm-Season Grasses
9 Perennial Cool-Season Grasses, Legumes & Forbs
10 Annual Forages
11 Silvopastures & Browse Plants
Part 3: Solving Practical Problems of Pasture Management
12 Pasture Fencing
13 Developing Drinking Water
14 Dealing with Too Much or Too Little Water
Part 4: Managing Pasture for Different Livestock Species
15 Beef & Dairy Cattle
16 Sheep & Goats
17 Horses
18 Swing & Poultry
Part 5: Increasing the Ecosystem Services of Pasture
19 Honey Bees & Other Pollinators
20 Wildlife
21 Pastures, Climate, Water & People
Conclusion: Final Words of Pasture Wisdom
Glossary
Metric Conversion Charts
Resources
Index
Part 1: Increasing Pasture Production & Profitability
1 What Makes a Pastured Livestock Operation Profitable
2 Why Grazing Plants Behave the Way They Do
3 How Animals Digest & Utilize Forage
4 Improving Pasture Productivity: Minerals, Water & Sunlight
5 Providing Year-Round Grazing
6 Determining a Proper Stocking Rate
7 Grazing Systems & Management
Part 2: Selecting & Managing Pasture Plants
8 Perennial Warm-Season Grasses
9 Perennial Cool-Season Grasses, Legumes & Forbs
10 Annual Forages
11 Silvopastures & Browse Plants
Part 3: Solving Practical Problems of Pasture Management
12 Pasture Fencing
13 Developing Drinking Water
14 Dealing with Too Much or Too Little Water
Part 4: Managing Pasture for Different Livestock Species
15 Beef & Dairy Cattle
16 Sheep & Goats
17 Horses
18 Swing & Poultry
Part 5: Increasing the Ecosystem Services of Pasture
19 Honey Bees & Other Pollinators
20 Wildlife
21 Pastures, Climate, Water & People
Conclusion: Final Words of Pasture Wisdom
Glossary
Metric Conversion Charts
Resources
Index