Mh. Ralphs et al., RESEARCH OBSERVATION - INFLUENCE OF OVER-WINTERING FEED REGIMEN ON CONSUMPTION OF LOCOWEED BY STEERS, Journal of range management, 50(3), 1997, pp. 250-252
Many producers believe cattle grazing wheat pasture during the winter
are likely to graze actively growing locoweed when turned onto short-g
rass prairie in the spring, White locoweed (Oxytropis sericea Nutt, ex
T&G) consumption was compared in a spring grazing study between steer
s wintered on irrigated 'TAM 105' wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) pasture
(Wheat) and steers wintered on native range (Range), Range steers con
sumed locoweed for 43% of bites compared to 17% for the Wheat steers,
and began eating locoweed before steers in the Wheat group, We rejecte
d the hypothesis that steers wintered on wheat are more inclined to gr
aze locoweed than steers wintered on native range.