Bulletin No.
756
Document Type
Bulletin
Department
Department of Animal and Range Sciences
Description
Improving profitability will help sustain the economic viability of ranch operations. Feed costs typically represent well over half of annual cow-calf production costs. Two things, 1) grazing strategies aimed at increasing the proportion of feed supplied through grazing and 2) decreasing reliance on high-cost harvested forages, have the potential to improve profit.
Keywords
extending livestock grazing pastures, native pasture grazing methods
Pages
4
Publication Date
5-2008
Type
text
Format
application/pdf
Language
en
Publisher
South Dakota Experiment Station, South Dakota State University
Recommended Citation
Smart, A. J.; Schafer, R.; and Gates, R. N., "Extending Native Winter Pasture Use with Spring Grazing Practices" (2008). Research Bulletins of the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station (1887-2011). 758.
https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/agexperimentsta_bulletins/758