Quality Pasture
How to Create It, Manage It & Profit From It, 2nd Edition
Rizzoli · Print & ebook · March 24, 2020
How to create quality pasture from the soil up This 2nd edition, revised and updated by Jim Gerrish, provides a comprehensive guide to creation and utilization of intensively managed quality pastures for profitable and regenerative grass farming.
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- Who it’s for
- Explore pasture creation and management, from forage sampling to grazing through seasonal slumps.
- Themes
- Quality pasture creation and management, Forage testing and pasture irrigation, Grass-based dairying
- Genres
- Animal Husbandry, Sustainable Agriculture, Soil Science
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How to create quality pasture from the soil up This 2nd edition, revised and updated by Jim Gerrish, provides a comprehensive guide to creation and utilization of intensively managed quality pastures for profitable and regenerative grass farming.
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Gerrish offers down-to-earth, low cost tactics to create high-energy pasture that will reduce or eliminate expensive inputs or purchased feeds for year-round grazing, such as wet weather tips, how to create a drought management plan, matching livestock to climate, and how to extend the grazing season during winter and summer slumps. New chapters cover: • What constitutes quality pasture and how to create it • Forage testing - why it's important and how to take samples • Pasture irrigation • Grass-based dairying • And so much more!
Pasture From Soil
Explore pasture creation and management, from forage sampling to grazing through seasonal slumps.
Come here for
- Practical tactics for creating high-energy pasture from the soil up
- Guidance on forage testing, pasture irrigation, and grass-based dairying
Expect
- Wet-weather tips and drought-management planning
- Advice on matching livestock to climate and extending the grazing season
Where it sits
| Animal Husbandry | 59% |
|---|---|
| Soil Science | 47% |
| Sustainable Agriculture | 45% |
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Publisher categories
- Agriculture & Farming
- Animal Husbandry
- Soil Science
- Authors
- Allan Nation
- Publisher
- Rizzoli
- Published
- March 24, 2020
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Quality pasture creation and management · Forage testing and pasture irrigation · Grass-based dairying
- Reading lane
- Agriculture & Farming