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grass. Fire also kills the parasites and flies that bother the cattle in the summer. Invasive cedar trees overtake grasses and starve out good native grasses. Other methods can be used to combat them but fire is the quickest and most efficient. While pasture burning may seem harmful to some, it’s an essential way to keep our grasslands and prairies in working order. Native Americans used fire to (invasive species, old/dead grass) Our government enforces prescribed burning on land enrolled in Conservation

A small herd of 14 Brahman cross weaners and our schools Ausline cattle; 1 cow and calf, 1 heifer, and 1 steer, housed in the same 40 acre paddock were provided access to one water trough. The data for this investigation was collected using a spear gate and walk-over weighing system, which the cattle has to pass in order to access the water trough. The spear gate prevented any other access to water and allowed the animals to leave the water compound. As the collection of these results, and the time

Throughout the US there has been the big concern of where the food we eat comes from and if it is healthy. Everyone wants healthy food, yet we fail to eat the healthy food that is right in front of us, instead we eat industrial made food that causes the death of thousands of people each year. In the Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan, you explore the pros and cons of our five main food chains; industrial,industrial organic, organic, sustainable, and hunter gatherer. In all ways, the sustainable

off, and sometimes when he is hurting for grass, he will pasture his cows on it, without the worry of bloating. He didn't know why the sainfoin wouldn't cause bloat, but he knew that it didn't. This raised some questions, so I decided to learn some more about this mysterious crop.

AgriLife Research Range ecologist (Ledbetter, 2010). The focus of this study was observing the effects of summer patch fires on the reduction of unwanted woody plants and prickly pear cacti. In this study, patches were burned rather than burning pastures as a whole to allow livestock to continue to graze in other areas simultaneously with the controlled burns. These burns took place in the summer rather than the winter because, “prescribed fire in the summer is more effective in controlling unwanted

Meat).” Raising humane meat uses less energy and less resources. It saves energy by food not having to travel far and wide to get to local grocery store but only at most a few hours to farmers markets. It also reduces waste because cows raised in pastures produce

The need to control internal parasites will exist as long as cattle are grazing pastures. There are many different kinds of internal parasites, including roundworms (nematodes), tapeworms (cestodes), flukes (trematodes), protozoans (such as coccidia), and helminths (worms). However, this essay will discuss tapeworms (cestodes) specifically. A tapeworm is a flat, segmented worm that lives in the intestines of some animals. They can be anywhere from 4 to 28 inches long, and they attach to the intestinal

How can we create a model farm out of the materials we are given and explain how a farm works all while using math? Standard: 5.MD.C.3: Recognize volume as an attribute of solid figures and understand concepts of volume measurement. Lesson Plan: Show the entry event, write down the essential question, do inquiry, set the deadline, answer some questions, let them do research, make blueprints, we will do check-ins every day except the last 3 days we will give them time to do work instead of doing

are nomads as they move from place to place in search of water and forage. Pastoralists way of life has been affected by droughts. There was a time when the was little rainfall and this affected the pastoralists stock because there were no greener pastures for the animals. Drought is when there is no rainfall or when there is little rainfall for crops and other plants. The pastoralist responded to the drought in different ways. Some of the pastoralists decided to move and look for better forage and

Rangeland is any extensive area of land that is occupied by native herbaceous or shrubby vegetation which is grazed by domestic or wild herbivores. Over the last couple of decades grazing of public rangelands in the United States has become very controversial. Groups opposing has cited degradation of public trust resources and detrimental to wildlife and plant species while advocates believe that grazing is beneficial to the wildlife and plant species and holding up the long tradition of ranching