
The Kerr Center’s beef cattle program has these goals:
- balance production level with production cost
- forage-based: grazing management maintains soil fertility and promotes plant diversity
- training the next generation of ranchers
1st principle of sustainability: create and conserve healthy soils
“Grass farmer plan”: high-density rotational grazing fosters health from the ground up:
Many animals for a short time in a small area
Benefits:
- soil: concentrates animal manure/urine for fertility; reduces compaction
- plants: keeps plants vegetative and growing; increases diversity; reduces weeds
- animals: fresh and nutritious forages; reduced parasites
- rancher: reduces costs; increases profits
Learn About…
Fence
Permanent or temporary? Electric or non-? Mesh or barbed? Which is best for which animals and situations? Learn more
Pasture/Grazing
Healthy soils, healthy forages – warm-season and cool. Haying vs. grazing. The keys to management intensive grazing. Learn more
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