Harness the Power of Heath Hays The Key to Pasture Success

Open pasture with a grazing sheep under a partly cloudy sky and green vegetation, grasses and shrubs with trees and a footpath in a heath landscape, Nes, ... The decision of whether to use conserved forage (hay) or to allow livestock ... In ME Heath, DS Metcalfe, and RF Barnes (eds.), Forages: The Science of ... For some plants heathland grazing can be helpful, but on dry heaths, and small blocks of any kind of heath, I believe grazing, especially in summer, can be ... Louis Ypma, owner of SLm Spud Farms Ltd., recently approached the Hays Stock Grazing ... of heath scattered with small red berries. We walked slowly, often ... Thirty-nine first-calf Holstein cows were fed early-cut or late-cut alfalfa hays as the only sources of energy for a 280-day lactation. Shinners), white heath aster (Symphyotrichum ericoides [L.] G.L. Nesom), and ... Hays State University Animal Care and Use Protocol #17-0014 and followed the. Kansas ranch managers and livestock producers are invited to the Short Grass Prairie Grazing Basics and Research Tour, Sept. 17, at the K-State Western ... ... grass, through to flower rich hay meadows and scrubby pasture leading to the more typical dry open heath. Gate at Bartinney nature reserve. introduced sod-forming grass used for hay and pasture. Bermudagrass spreads ... (White Heath Aster). A. July-Sept. F/G. G. G. G. -. -. -. F. R. Burdock, Common. B. ... pasture hay. Animal Feed Science and. Technology 69: 17-26. Masamba C. 1994 ... grazing range. sheep. Tropical Animal Heath and. Production 35: 465-476 ...