Forage Utilization for Pasture-Based Livestock Production (NRAES 173)

Abstract

This 185 page publication (NRAES-173) was originally published by the Natural Resource, Agriculture, and Engineering Service (NRAES, previously known as the Northeast Regional Agricultural Engineering Service), a multi-university program in the Northeast US disbanded in 2011. Plant and Life Sciences Publishing (PALS) was subsequently formed to manage the NRAES catalog. Ceasing operations in 2018, PALS was a program of the Department of Horticulture in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) at Cornell University. PALS assisted university faculty in publishing, marketing and distributing books for small farmers, gardeners, land owners, workshops, college courses, and consumers.Essential information on grazing management and harvesting excess forage for livestock produced in a pasture-based system including chapters on fencing, watering systems, lanes and feeding pads, animal-handling facilities, and more