Grace Truman
Extension Specialist
West Virginia University
Extension Service
Grazing management over the year
must be flexible to obtain the optimum
level of pasture utilization.
Dr. Edward B. Rayburn, extension
forage agronomist at West Virginia
University, notes that the rate of forage
growth varies over the year. It is fast in
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the spring and slow during dry or cold
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On average, SO percept of perennial
cool-season forage growth occurs
from April to June, 33 percent in July
and August, and just 16 percent from
September to November.
‘To account for this, you’ll need
more acres for grazing an animal in the
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spring and allowing more acres to be
grazed later by reducing the number of
animals in the herd or by wasting feed
and clipping weeds and seed weeds.”
When using rotational grazing in the
spring, move grazing cattle to the next
paddock when the growth is tall
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bit of forage in the field.
Rayburn said there is merit in using
continuous grazing in the spring to
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“Graze cattle to optimize forage
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