Annual Pasture Annual crops are often overlooked as a valuable source of feed for the pasture season. Under normal growing conditions, a spring-seeded annual such as oats can be grazed four to five weeks after seeding. Stocking rates on annual pastures should be heavy enough to prevent the crop from heading out. Vegetative growth will continue until a killing frost. Yearling steers were pastured on oats underseeded to tame forage at two Interlake sites.
Results obtained are as follows.
Complementary Pasture A complementary pasture uses a combination of tame and native species, and the ratio used should provide for optimum forage growth and utilization. The complementary pasture system is adaptable to most farms and ranches in Manitoba, and makes use of a small acreage of tame seeded pasture grazed in rotation with a large native acreage. Between 190 and 200 yearling steers were grazed on a combination of 96 acres of tame pasture and 880 acres of native bush pasture. Demonstrations have shown the complementary pasture system to give the highest returns for the additional fencing, fertilizer and management required. P.F.R.A. Community Pastures Community pastures are another option available to Manitoba livestock producers.