Estimating Amount of Forage in Hay Fields and Pastures by Tim Wilson, Cindy Sanders, Jacque Breman, Lynn Sollenberger

“…There must be enough material in the field to justify the cost of using harvesting equipment; otherwise, the area should be grazed. This 2-page fact sheet contains instructions for a simple method to determine the approximate amount of forage in hay fields and pastures. …”
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Alternative Attractors of Shallow Lakes by Marten Scheffer

“…Since there are no plants that could serve as refuges, zooplankton is grazed down by fish to densities insufficient to control algal blooms. …”
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Diet Supplementation Influences Ghrelin System Expression in the Skin Appendages of the Sheep by Margherita Maranesi, Cecilia Dall’Aglio, Sara Moscatelli, Elisa Palmioli, Paola Coliolo, Daniele Marini, Gabriella Guelfi, Paola Scocco, Francesca Mercati

“…Three-year-old female sheep were free to graze from June to the pasture maximum flowering (MxF group) and from this period to maximum dryness addicted (Exp group) or not (MxD group) with 600 gr/die/head of barley and corn. …”
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A Colorado Front Range grassland exhibits decreasing dominance of cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) over time by Janet S. Prevéy, Timothy R. Seastedt

“…The site was neither grazed nor burned during this interval. A “spring/summer‐wet” precipitation pattern with high interannual variation in amounts occurred during the study, but no relationships between the seasonality or amounts of precipitation and the directional decline in cheatgrass abundance were observed. …”
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Soil Quality Assessment Strategies for Evaluating Soil Degradation in Northern Ethiopia by Gebreyesus Brhane Tesfahunegn

“…Eight LUSMS selected for soil sampling and analysis included (i) natural forest (LS1), (ii) plantation of protected area, (iii) grazed land, (iv) teff (Eragrostis tef)-faba bean (Vicia faba) rotation, (v) teff-wheat (Triticum vulgare)/barley (Hordeum vulgare) rotation, (vi) teff monocropping, (vii) maize (Zea mays) monocropping, and (viii) uncultivated marginal land (LS8). …”
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Pastoral livestock farming constraints and adaptation strategies in response to institutional reforms in the Sudano-Sahelian zone of West Africa by Basnewindé Ilboudo, Alhassane Zaré, Alhassane Zaré, Innocent Charles Emmanuel Traoré, Innocent Charles Emmanuel Traoré, Loyapin Bondé, Reginald Tang Guuroh, Reginald Tang Guuroh, Reginald Tang Guuroh, Oumarou Ouédraogo

“…In response, some livestock farmers drive their herds out of the country, while others illegally graze in protected areas. They also combine socio-professional conversion to support their livelihoods, with atypical transhumance in the rainy season and seek herd feed satisfaction. …”
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Body weight gain and development of reproductive tract in crossbred Murrah × Mediterranean water buffalo heifers by Oswaldo J. González, Amílcar Acuña, Solaine Bradley, Ysis Cañizalez, Jorge Espinoza, Cindy Paniagua, María Virginia Suárez, Mónica Fuentes

“…A treated group (n=35) was fed 1kg of a concentrate animal/day plus 5g of Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast/animal/day, and a Control group (n=36) did not receive the supplementation. The heifers grazed in the same pastures and received the same fresh-cut grass at the herd and the same mineral supplementation. …”
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Percentage of primiparous water buffalo cows becoming pregnant in the first 90 days postpartum by Héctor Nava-Trujillo, José Colmenares-Duque, Frank Díaz-Huerta, Adriana Morgado-Osorio, Armando Quintero-Moreno

“…In both experiments, animals grazed in pastures consisting of creeping river grass (Echinochloa polystachya), tanner (Bachiaria arrecta), and humidicola (Brachiaria humidicola) in one-day paddock rotations. …”
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