Net Production from Grazing = f (Animal Management, Forage Management)

Grazing animal producers are becoming more aware of the role that forage quality plays in their net production of pounds of milk or pounds of meat. Likewise, those producers whom have concentrated more on the forage production aspect of the above equation have become increasingly aware of the use of animals in their production system which best utilize the types of feed that they produce.

The students of the Agronomy 534: Forage Quality and Utilization course, class of 1995, have tried to tackle the many concerns which deal with forage and animal management in grazing systems. What follows is a monograph on both the forage and animal aspects of grazing management to aid both experimenters and producers in points they should consider when performing research or when attempting to reach maximum production from their own grazing system. The monograph consists of seven papers, each written by a separate student, on one aspect of either forage or animal management as it deals with grazing. The students hope that researchers and producers are able to learn as much from reading this monograph as they did in creating it.