Then local NRCS consultants suggest ways to improve livestock grazing there. These practices may include changing rotation patterns or times, using better forages or planting annual rye to beef up wintertime quality. The service is developing diet quality maps to help people decide what they should grow on their farms or ranches. Now we've found that you should graze it in June for about three weeks and then get off of it. It's a little better, a little earlier than switchgrass.
Quality time counts with it.
But if you're growing steers, you'd better rotate every two days. Move cattle when forage quality and needs of the animal dictate, not when your neighbor moves his, says Norman. For more information on the well-being program, see your local NRCS office. Watch for research on virtual fencing. That's an exciting possibility, especially on big Western rangeland where fencing costs are prohibitive.