Grazing

In general, Grazing consists of bringing livestock (usually sheep, goats, or cattle) to infested sites, building a moveable fence and allowing the animals to graze on the Kudzu. Rotating pastures is important for both the animals and efficacy of treatment in order for the animals to have enough forage while also going over every section multiple times. In a single growing season, livestock are capable of eliminating up to 80% of the Kudzu’s biomass while also meeting their own nutritional needs. Like mowing, however, Grazing is only capable of removing the above-ground sections of Kudzu and must be repeatedly applied for several years in order to control the weeds (University of Idaho…

The purpose of this experiment was to analyze meso- and microzooplankton feeding. Largely due to size differences, mesozooplankton (>140 μm) are important exporters of carbon and prey for larger organisms, while microzooplankton (100–140 μn) are important recyclers of nutrients, dominant grazers of phytoplankton, and key link in the microbial loop (Conroy et al., 2016; Uitto and Hallfors, 1996). Therefore, understanding this relationship between zooplankton and grazing will allow scientists…

Steps I would take to evaluate the land conditions is to analyze and determine the main causes of the issue at hand by determining the causes of the degrading over overgrazing and invasive weeds that are replacing native grasses. By doing this we can analyze the causes of grazing by ranchers and study how restoring these lands through the restoration process that can be used in order to provide a positive effects and outlook on the environment. Some approaches we can take when evaluating…

QUESTIONS 1. Is the diversity of mesoherbivores and grasses increased by mesoherbivore grazing and fire? 2. Is soil stability increased by increased mesoherbivore grazing and fire? HYPOTHESIS 1. It is hypothesised that holistic management and planned grazing via mesoherbivores will increase grass diversity and soil stability better than fire because mesoherbivores contribute more to the environment by increasing nutrients in the soil with mulch. They also keep the grass short and in a…

The article “Origin, Persistence, and Resolution of the Rotational Grazing Debate: Integrating Human Dimensions into Rangeland Research” by Briske is about the debate regarding the benefits and negatives of rotational grazing. It talks about the beginning of this concept and the major reasons for it. Rotational grazing start to come around the 20th century due to severe rangeland degradation and now it is the professional norm for grazing management. There are arguments that rotational grazing…

southforkangus.com.au - Important Factors When Training Cattle for Winter Grazing When winter rolls in with its snowfalls, you may feel that you need to bring out the feed wagon each day to provide nourishment to your cattle. You are mistaken in this, though, since you can train cattle to find the grass by digging in the snow. By understanding the following key facts, you can successfully train your cattle to participate in winter grazing, even with snow being on the grass. Understand That…

beautiful land in many parts of Arundel has become very over grazed. This is the main cause of the land degradation. Over grazing can lead to soil erosion and deposition, land degradation, and the overabundance of weed take over. Additionally, soil loses can lose it’s nutrients and organic matter. Overgrazing…

This case implicated a challenge brought by the Western Watersheds Project (“WWP”), in which the Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) decided to grant a 10 -year grazing permit to LHS Spilt Rock Ranch, LLC (“Split Rock”), for four federal public land allotments in central Wyoming (“the Split Rock allotments”).1 The 102-page Environmental Assessment was published in 2009. Relying largely on the 2005 Rangeland Health Standards Assessment (RHS), it recognized significant ecological issues on the…

Australia’s population growth will place enormous pressure on the food production industry as crop productions and livestock grazing must increase to support the growth (Ruiz et al. 2013). However, the competition for land between residential and agricultural uses has limited the availability of cultivable land (Ruiz et al. 2013). Thus, sustainability is a major concern as production industries are forced to move further out from the capital cities and thus, will drive the cost of food up (Ruiz…

the land is the Dust Bowl which occurred in the 1930’s in the southern Great Plains of the United States. Through an overabundance of farming and livestock grazing, native grasses were removed and soil structure was altered (Withgott & Laposata, 2014). This contributed to the erosion of topsoil. When the drought in the area worsened, strong winds pushed massive dust storms up to 1250 miles, with blackening rain and snow all the way to the East coast. Numerous farmers lost their land as topsoil…