RESEARCH OBSERVATION - INFLUENCE OF OVER-WINTERING FEED REGIMEN ON CONSUMPTION OF LOCOWEED BY STEERS

Citation
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
Citations number
7
Categorie Soggetti
Agriculture Dairy & AnumalScience",Ecology
Journal title
ISSN journal
0022409X
Volume
50
Issue
3
Year of publication
1997
Pages
250 - 252
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-409X(1997)50:3<250:RO-IOO>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
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.