Management Strategies for Sustainable Cattle Production in Southern Pastures

Provides strategies to optimize cattle welfare and to help improve the sustainability of pastures and profitable cattle production

Monte Rouquette, Jr. (Edited by), Glen Aiken (Edited by)

9780128144749

Paperback / softback, published 23 August 2019

362 pages
23.4 x 19 x 2.3 cm, 0.7 kg

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.

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

Subject Areas: Animal breeding [TVHB]