This is a report on the Kerr Center’s experience with management intensive grazing (MIG). It defines MIG, explains and demonstrates how to calculate grazing period, rest period, and stock density, and summarizes two Kerr Center projects involving MIG. Author: Will Lathrop, Brian Freking Date: Pages: 4

This is an article from the summer 2005 issue of Field Notes. It explains the basic principles behind rotational or management intensive grazing.

This fact sheet summarizes the Kerr Center’s experience with and recommendations for grazing management.

This presentation covers grazing systems and their benefits, grazing terms and calculations, pasture design, and grazing strategies.

Many pastures on the Kerr Ranch are currently knee-deep in fescue, with seedheads nodding at waist height and thick stands of clover coming into white blossom beneath. The only thing missing from the picture is the cattle. Part of this owes to the conservative stocking rate, and the rotational grazing plan that stockpiles forage and…