When balancing the annual and seasonal carrying capacity with livestock needs, utilization of the grazing lands should often be considered first. The seasonal utilization of native range and other permanent, dryland pasture is generally the least flexible, except on year-long range found mostly inthe...
SOILAGE FOR BEEF CATTLEOver three seasons, 1957–9, soilage or zero-grazing was found to be more efficient than rotational grazing. This increased efficiency amounted to a 5% greater output of beef per acre and 8% greater stock-carrying capacity....
Yesterday’s sale story references 40,000 head of cattle included in the $104m sale to the Jumbuck syndicate. Estimated carrying capacity of the aggregation back in 1992 was 35,000 head, compared with the 57,000 head the properties have run on average over the past ten years (...
The carrying capacity of pastures on non-tillable land was not as high as that of pastures on tillable areas. Farms having a small proportion of the pasture area (8 per cent) on non-tillable land carried 60 per cent more animal units per acre of pasture than did farms having a large...
However, although the gradual growth of the livestock industry has indeed met people’s urgent demand for high-quality meat to a large extent, it has also forced the environmental carrying capacity to be under unprecedented pressure. Global GHG emissions from livestock increased by 51% from 1961 ...