
Management Strategies for Sustainable Cattle Production in Southern Pastures
Description
Key Features
- Documents the effects of cattle grazing on greenhouse gas emissions and carbon footprints
- Discusses strategies to enhance soil fertility, soil health, and nutrient cycling in pastures
- Provides information on the use of stocking rates, stocking strategies and grazing systems to optimize cow-calf production of weaned calves and stockers.
- Presents innovations in cattle supplementation and watering systems to minimize negative impacts on water and soil health
- Includes methods for weed control to maintain pasture condition and ecosystem stability
- Describes management strategies to integrate cattle operations with wildlife sustainability
Readership
Cattle producers; Extension agents and specialists; Forage and animal scientists; USDA- Natural Resource; Conservation Service; USDA – Agricultural Research Service; U.S. Bureau of Land and Mines; U.S. Forest Service; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Animal Welfare Scientists
Table of Contents
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
Product details
- No. of pages: 362
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2019
- Published: August 22, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128144749
- eBook ISBN: 9780128144756
About the Editors
Monte Rouquette, Jr.
Affiliations and Expertise
Glen Aiken
Affiliations and Expertise
Ratings and Reviews
Latest reviews
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FernandoOngaratto Thu Dec 26 2019
Management Strategies for Sustainable Cattle Production in Southern Pastures
The book is very good, with a clear and straightforward language that shows the reader the science of ruminant grazing production through the 4 axes: soil, plant, animal and atmosphere.
CharlesWest Sun Oct 27 2019
Management Strategies for Sustainable Cattle Production in Southern Pastures
This is an excellent book that thoroughly covers all practical aspects of pasture management in the humid southeastern U.S. The editors are highly respected pasture scientists, who are just as strong in agronomy as they are in animal science. They recruited strong chapter writers for specialty topics, which are well illustrated with instructive data and photographs. The only weakness in this book is the lack of color in photos and graphs. Many photos are overly dark, and gray tones in graphs are sometimes difficult too distinguish.