Claim · model-written summary
Mean grazing interval decreased as residual sward height increased.
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Verbatim
e3“As RSH increased, the mean grazing interval decreased, which increased the number of seasonal grazing events of vegetative but not of mature‐stage grasses”
Title
Residual Sward Height Effects on Growth and Nutritive Value of Grazed Temperate Perennial Grasses
G. E. Brink; R. D. Jackson; N. B. Alber Crop Science 2013. doi:10.2135/cropsci2013.01.0068
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Grasses grazed at vegetative stage to a 2- or 8-cm residual sward height had greater annual forage harvested than at 16 cm when precipitation was limiting.
- Association Annual forage harvested of grasses grazed at mature stage increased as residual sward height decreased.
- Association Number of seasonal grazing events increased with residual sward height for vegetative-stage grasses but not mature-stage grasses.
- Association There was no apparent relationship between forage nutritive value and residual sward height.
- Intervention effect Grazing vegetative-stage grasses to a shorter residual sward height (<8 cm) reduced persistence in a dry year.
- Intervention effect Grazing vegetative-stage grasses to a shorter residual sward height (<8 cm) delayed the date of first grazing event in the following spring.
- Intervention effect Leaving a tall residual sward height gave little or no growth advantage when grazing mature-stage grasses.