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Forage Utilization for Pasture-Based Livestock Production (NRAES 173)

Author
Rayburn, E. B.; Abaye, A. O.; Bartlett, Benjamin B.; Murphy, William M.; Belesky, David P.; Peterson, Paul R.; Benson, Geoffrey A.; Poore, Matthew H.; Bryan, William B.; Rayburn, Edward B.; Cherney, Jerome H.; Rotz, C. Alan; Comerford, John W.; Sanderson, Matt A.; Cropper, James B.; Scott, Michael E.; Green, James T.; Soder, Kathy J.; Hall, Marvon H.; Tracy, Benjamin F.; Vollborn, Edward M.
Abstract
Essential information on grazing management and harvesting excess forage for livestock produced in a pasture-based system including chapters on fencing, watering systems, lanes and feeding pads, animal-handling facilities, and more.
Description
This 185 page publication (NRAES-173) was originally published by the Natural Resource, Agriculture, and Engineering Service (NRAES, previously known as the Northeast Regional Agricultural Engineering Service), a multi-university program in the Northeast US disbanded in 2011. Plant and Life Sciences Publishing (PALS) was subsequently formed to manage the NRAES catalog. Ceasing operations in 2018, PALS was a program of the Department of Horticulture in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) at Cornell University. PALS assisted university faculty in publishing, marketing and distributing books for small farmers, gardeners, land owners, workshops, college courses, and consumers.
Date Issued
2007-02Publisher
Natural Resource, Agriculture, and Engineering Service (NRAES)
Subject
Forage Plants; Grazing Management; Pastoral Systems; Livestock; Pasture-Based Livestock Production; Animal Feed
Previously Published As
Rayburn, E. B., and Abaye, A. O. (Eds.) (2007). Forage utilization for pasture-based livestock production. Ithaca, N.Y.: Natural Resource, Agriculture, and Engineering Service, Cooperative Extension.
Type
book