Management Strategies for Sustainable Cattle Production in Southern Pastures

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-12-814474-9
Verlag: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc

Buch, Englisch, 362 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 700 g

Management Strategies for Sustainable Cattle Production in Southern Pastures is a practical resource for scientists, students, and stakeholders who want to understand the relationships between soil-plant interactions and pasture management strategies, and the resultant performance of cow-calf and stocker cattle. This book illustrates the importance of matching cattle breed types and plant hardiness zones to optimize cattle production from forages and pastures. It explains the biologic and economic implications of grazing management decisions made to improve sustainability of pastures and cattle production while being compliant with present and future environmental concerns and cattle welfare programs.

Zielgruppe

<p>Cattle producers; Extension agents and specialists; Forage and animal scientists; USDA- Natural Resource; Conservation Service</p> <p>USDA - Agricultural Research Service</p> <p>U.S. Bureau of Land and Mines; U.S. Forest Service</p> <p>U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Animal Welfare Scientists</p>

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rouquette Jr., Monte

Aiken, Glen

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Nachhaltige Landwirtschaft
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Tierhaltung Tierzucht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Management strategies for sustainable cattle production in southern pastures 2. Cattle grazing effects on the Environment: Greenhouse gas emissions and carbon footprint 3. Maintaining soil fertility and health for sustainable pastures 4. Nutrient cycling in grazed pastures 5. Managing grazing in forage-livestock systems 6. Management of forages and pastures in the Lower South: The I-10 corridor 7. Management strategies for pastures and beef cattle in the Middle South: The I-20 corridor 8. Management of pastures in the Upper South: The I-30 and I-40 corridors 9. Management strategies for pastures, beef cattle, and marketing of stocker-feeder calves in the Upper South: The I-64 corridor 10. Pasture-finished beef production in the south 11. Weed control in pastures 12. Management strategies of property and impact on wildlife

Über Autor(innen)

Rouquette Jr., Monte
Monte Rouquette, Jr. has served at Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Overton, since 1970. His research program combines the soil-plant interface and environmentally compatible impacts of nutrient cycling under grazing and stocking conditions with the plant-animal interface that assesses biological components of efficiency for forage utilization by cows, calves and stocker cattle. His program also includes a birth-to-harvest database, BeefSys, used for modeling and economic aspects.

Aiken, Glen
Glen Aiken has an h-index of 14 and is the research leader of the Forage-Animal Production Research Unit, Lexington, Kentucky. Dr. Aiken is a major contributor to forage-animal production in the United States to improve productivity, profitability, competitiveness, and sustainability of forage-based enterprises for the enhancement of food animal production. Currently, he is the Director of the University of Florida's North Florida Research and Education Center.