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 and Chief Agronomist at regenerativewisdom.com, a farm and ranching consulting service. An internationally recognized agroecologist, speaker, and consultant, Strickler has more than 30 years of experience as a highly successful farmer and rancher in his own operation, as well as 15 years teaching in higher education and 20 years of industry experience with companies such as Land-o-Lakes and GreenCover Seed. Strickler has developed effective crop and grazing systems for numerous farms and ranches with a range of often challenging climates and soil types and his articles have appeared in publications like Mother Earth News, Acres USA, Stockman Grass Farmer, and Grit. He was the recipient of the 2013 Water and Energy Progress Award Model of Innovation and the Kansas Farm Bureau Natural Friend of Agriculture Award in 2021.
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