Terms
Non-Use for a year (useful for creating wildlife habitat)
What is Rest
First specialized grazing system in the U.S
Deferred Rotation grazing
What is Continuous grazing?
Grazing an area throughout the year or the part of the year when grazing is feseble
Short duration is also called
Rapid rotation, time control, and cell grazing
Rotation
Movement of livestock from one pasture to another on a scheduled basis
Most failures in rest rotation are related to
Heavy stocking rates
Problems when using Continuous Grazing
Water, Forage and Cover
Where was short duration grazing developed
Zimbabwe
Number of animals per unit area
High stock density
The best vegetation responses have been found on what
Tall Grass prairie
Productivity and condition can be maintained under _
Moderate continuous grazing intensity
Who developed short duration grazing
Allan Savory
Deferment
Delay of grazing in a pasture until seed maturity of the key forage species
One pasture receives 12 months of nonuse while the other pastures observe
Grazing load
In flat terrain the problem can be overcome by
Rotating access to watering locations
Stocking rate has major impacts on
Range condition and animal production
Multicamp
Eight or more paddocks
There are better systems in this area if the goal is livestock production
Flat desert or prairie
In what circumstances is a continuous grazing system Greater than or equal to any other grazing systems
In a flat shortgrass and northern mixed prairie, or a where precipitation is under 12 inches of rain
What affects economic return
availability of fencing materials, labor, existing fence, and number of paddocks used