Management Strategies for Sustainable Cattle Production in Southern Pastures

Management Strategies for Sustainable Cattle Production: On Grazed Grasslands is a practical resource for scientists who need an understanding of the interactions between cattle genetics and the environment as they select breed types across different environments and look to optimize cattle production. It explains the biologic and economic implications of grazing management decisions made to improve sustainability of profitable cattle production, but also discusses how to be compliant with present and future environmental regulations and how to optimize cattle welfare.

• Discusses how stocking impacts cattle performance to optimize beef production
• Provides grazing systems tools to maintain sustainable, productive pastures and rangelands to increase livestock production
• Presents innovations in cattle feeding and watering systems that can be used to minimize impacts on water and soil quality
• Includes control methods of noxious weeds needed to maintain forage composition, pasture and rangeland condition, and ecosystem stability