Evaluation of Grazing Options During Summer for Growing Heifers – Year 2

Developing methods to provide high quality forage through most of the year is important for cattle operations. The purpose this study was determine management options offset summer “slump” with fescue. Four grass pasture treatments (10 pastures total; 4 acres each) were used in a completely randomized design and stocked growing heifers (n = 49; initial wt 473 ± 60 lb). Pasture consisted novel fescue (FES), crabgrass (CRAB), bermudagrass (BERM), sorghum-sudan interseeded into (SS-FES). Heifers weighed grazed from April September (153 d). on FES continuously grazed. All other rotationally Sorghum-sudan May. Average daily gain (ADG) entire grazing period not different between systems. In contrast previous year, there no differences heifer gain, ADG, or per acre any treatments.