Claim · model-written summary
Grazing vegetative-stage grasses to a shorter residual sward height (<8 cm) reduced persistence in a dry year.
- Taxon
- grassese5
- Organ / stage
- vegetativee5
- Treatment
- grazing vegetative‐stage grasses to a shorter RSH (<8 cm)e5
- Outcome
- persistencee5
- Direction
- reducede5
- Qualifier
- in a dry yeare5
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSettingValue
Verbatim
e5“The primary risks incurred by grazing vegetative‐stage grasses to a shorter RSH (<8 cm) were reduced persistence in a dry year and delayed date of first grazing event the following spring”
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 Mean grazing interval decreased as residual sward height increased.
- 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) 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.