Dale Strickler

Managing Pasture (eBook, ePUB)

A Complete Guide to Building Healthy Pasture for Grass-Based Meat & Dairy Animals

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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

• Verlag: Storey Publishing, LLC
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781635860719
• Artikelnr.: 64262884

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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