From Pasture to Plate
2 types of grades used for beef
What is quality and yield grades?
The Father of the Green Revolution
Who is Norman Borloaug?
Name for the destruction of soil structure
What is Puddling?
%CP = ___x%N
What is 6.25
This plant is highly poisonous to cows and found on Cedar Mountain
What is Larkspur?
The length of time a cow is pregnant
What is 283 days?
Utah's #1 crop
What is Alfalfa?
Water movement in the soil is called
What is Percolation?
Fat-soluble vitamins
AUM stands for
What is Animal Unit Month?
We use this hydraulic chute at the beef center
What is The Silencer?
The average American eats how many pounds of food in a day?
What is about 5.5 lbs?
Level of soil that is the most productive
What is Top soil or A horizon?
Number of feed classifications
Most common invasive plant species in Utah
What is Cheatgrass/Bromus tectorum?
Rapid and severe dehydration, electrolyte loss, and malnutrition are all issues of this disease
What is Scours?
These elements are found on the front of a bag of fertilizer?
These 3 major terms are used in the USDA textural triangle to determine textural classes of soils
What is Sand, Silt, and Clay?
Cottonseed is high in this nutrient
What is Protein?
Term for the percentage of total forage produced that is assigned to grazing animals for consumption.
What is Harvest coefficient?
SUU Farm has these two breeds of cattle.
What is Angus and Gelbvieh?
This crop is the most salt-tolerant
What is Barley?
This agricultural practice involved leaving land unplanted for up to two years to conserve moisture and allow water to soak into the soil.
What is fallow?
What are Acetate, Propionate, and Butyrate?
Term used to describe the actual number of animals assigned to a rangeland unit for a given time period?
What is Stocking rate?