Abstract
Pastures containing hay-type and grazing tolerant alfalfa hybrids were grazed in a season-long or complimentary rotational stocking system with Nfertilized smooth bromegrass. The pastures were stocked at a seasonal density of .8 cow-calf pairs per acre for 120 days. Pastures were intensively managed by daily strip-stocking with the assumptions that 50% of live forage was available and daily live dry matter consumption of each cow-calf pair was 3.5% of the cow’s body weight. First-cutting forage was harvested as hay from 40% of pasture acres to remove excess forage growth early in the grazing season. Forage was grazed from the remaining 60% of each pasture for the first 44 days of the experiment and then from the entire pasture thereafter. Live forage yields, estimated by monthly clippings, were greater in May and September on the season-long alfalfa pastures compared with the complementary pastures and on the alfalfa pastures compared with the N-fertilized smooth bromegrass pastures. The proportions of legumes in the live dry matter in pastures with grazing tolerant and hay-type alfalfas in the season-long grazing systems declined by 70% and 50%, respectively, in the 120 day trial. The proportions of legumes in the live dry matter in pastures with grazing tolerant and the hay-type alfalfas in the complementary grazing system declined 60% and 42%, respectively, in the 120 day trial. Cows grazing either alfalfa hybrid by either management system had greater weight gains during the breeding and grazing seasons and greater increases in body condition score prebreeding and during the breeding season than the cows that grazed N-fertilized smooth bromegrass for the entire season. Also, cows grazing either alfalfa in the season-long system had greater breeding season increases in body condition score than cows grazing alfalfa in the complementary system with N-fertilized smooth bromegrass. Daily gains and seasonal gains of calves from cows grazing the alfalfa pastures tended to be greater than those grazing N-fertilized smooth bromegrass. Within alfalfa treatments, calves of cows grazing alfalfa pastures in the season-long system tended to produce more pounds per acre than those of cows grazing alfalfa in the complementary systems.
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Claims 11
Claim · model-written summary
Season-long alfalfa pastures had greater live forage yields in May and September than complementary pastures.
- Taxon
- alfalfa
Medicago sativae1 - Treatment
- season-long alfalfa pasturese1
- Outcome
- Live forage yieldse1
- Direction
- greatere1
- Qualifier
- May and Septembere1
- Comparator
- complementary pasturese1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Live forage yields, estimated by monthly clippings, were greater in May and September on the season-long alfalfa pastures compared with the complementary pastures”
Claim · model-written summary
Alfalfa pastures had greater live forage yields in May and September than N-fertilized smooth bromegrass pastures.
- Taxon
- alfalfaMedicago sativae1
- Treatment
- alfalfa pasturese1
- Outcome
- Live forage yieldse1
- Direction
- greatere1
- Qualifier
- May and Septembere1
- Comparator
- N-fertilized smooth bromegrass pasturese1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Live forage yields, estimated by monthly clippings, were greater in May and September on the season-long alfalfa pastures compared with the complementary pastures and on the alfalfa pastures compared with the N-fertilized smooth bromegrass pastures”
Claim · model-written summary
Legume proportion in live dry matter declined by 70% in 120 days in season-long pastures with grazing tolerant alfalfa.
- Taxon
- alfalfaMedicago sativae1
- Material
- grazing tolerante1
- Treatment
- season-long grazing systemse1
- Outcome
- proportions of legumes in the live dry mattere1
- Direction
- declinede1
- Value
- 70%e1
- Qualifier
- in the 120 day triale1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“The proportions of legumes in the live dry matter in pastures with grazing tolerant and hay-type alfalfas in the season-long grazing systems declined by 70% and 50%, respectively, in the 120 day trial”
Claim · model-written summary
Legume proportion in live dry matter declined by 50% in 120 days in season-long pastures with hay-type alfalfa.
- Taxon
- alfalfaMedicago sativae1
- Material
- hay-typee1
- Treatment
- season-long grazing systemse1
- Outcome
- proportions of legumes in the live dry mattere1
- Direction
- declinede1
- Value
- 50%e1
- Qualifier
- in the 120 day triale1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“The proportions of legumes in the live dry matter in pastures with grazing tolerant and hay-type alfalfas in the season-long grazing systems declined by 70% and 50%, respectively, in the 120 day trial”
Claim · model-written summary
Legume proportion in live dry matter declined by 60% in 120 days in complementary grazing with grazing tolerant alfalfa.
- Taxon
- alfalfaMedicago sativae1
- Material
- grazing tolerante1
- Treatment
- complementary grazing systeme1
- Outcome
- proportions of legumes in the live dry mattere1
- Direction
- declinede1
- Value
- 60%e1
- Qualifier
- in the 120 day triale1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“The proportions of legumes in the live dry matter in pastures with grazing tolerant and the hay-type alfalfas in the complementary grazing system declined 60% and 42%, respectively, in the 120 day trial”
Claim · model-written summary
Legume proportion in live dry matter declined by 42% in 120 days in complementary grazing with hay-type alfalfa.
- Taxon
- alfalfaMedicago sativae1
- Material
- hay-typee1
- Treatment
- complementary grazing systeme1
- Outcome
- proportions of legumes in the live dry mattere1
- Direction
- declinede1
- Value
- 42%e1
- Qualifier
- in the 120 day triale1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“The proportions of legumes in the live dry matter in pastures with grazing tolerant and the hay-type alfalfas in the complementary grazing system declined 60% and 42%, respectively, in the 120 day trial”
Claim · model-written summary
Cows grazing either alfalfa hybrid had greater weight gains during the breeding and grazing seasons than cows grazing N-fertilized smooth bromegrass all season.
- Taxon
- alfalfaMedicago sativae1
- Treatment
- grazing either alfalfa hybrid by either management systeme1
- Interactor
- cows
Bos tauruse1herbivore - Outcome
- weight gainse1
- Direction
- greatere1
- Qualifier
- during the breeding and grazing seasonse1
- Comparator
- N-fertilized smooth bromegrasse1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Cows grazing either alfalfa hybrid by either management system had greater weight gains during the breeding and grazing seasons and greater increases in body condition score prebreeding and during the breeding season than the cows that grazed N-fertilized smooth bromegrass for the entire season”
Claim · model-written summary
Cows grazing either alfalfa hybrid had greater body condition score increases prebreeding and during breeding than cows grazing N-fertilized smooth bromegrass all season.
- Taxon
- alfalfaMedicago sativae1
- Treatment
- grazing either alfalfa hybrid by either management systeme1
- Interactor
- cowsBos tauruse1herbivore
- Outcome
- increases in body condition scoree1
- Direction
- greatere1
- Qualifier
- prebreeding and during the breeding seasone1
- Comparator
- N-fertilized smooth bromegrasse1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Cows grazing either alfalfa hybrid by either management system had greater weight gains during the breeding and grazing seasons and greater increases in body condition score prebreeding and during the breeding season than the cows that grazed N-fertilized smooth bromegrass for the entire season”
Claim · model-written summary
Cows in season-long alfalfa grazing had greater breeding season body condition score increases than cows in complementary alfalfa grazing.
- Taxon
- alfalfaMedicago sativae1
- Treatment
- cows grazing either alfalfa in the season-long systeme1
- Interactor
- cowsBos tauruse1herbivore
- Outcome
- increases in body condition scoree1
- Direction
- greatere1
- Qualifier
- breeding seasone1
- Comparator
- cows grazing alfalfa in the complementary systeme1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Also, cows grazing either alfalfa in the season-long system had greater breeding season increases in body condition score than cows grazing alfalfa in the complementary system with N-fertilized smooth bromegrass”
Claim · model-written summary
Daily and seasonal gains of calves from cows grazing alfalfa tended to be greater than those grazing N-fertilized smooth bromegrass.
- Taxon
- alfalfaMedicago sativae1
- Treatment
- cows grazing the alfalfa pasturese1
- Interactor
- calvese1herbivore
- Outcome
- Daily gains and seasonal gains of calvese1
- Direction
- greatere1
- Qualifier
- tendede1
- Comparator
- N-fertilized smooth bromegrasse1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Daily gains and seasonal gains of calves from cows grazing the alfalfa pastures tended to be greater than those grazing N-fertilized smooth bromegrass”
Claim · model-written summary
Calves of cows in season-long alfalfa grazing tended to produce more pounds per acre than calves of cows in complementary alfalfa grazing.
- Taxon
- alfalfaMedicago sativae1
- Treatment
- season-long systeme1
- Interactor
- calvese1herbivore
- Outcome
- pounds per acree1
- Direction
- moree1
- Qualifier
- tendede1
- Comparator
- those of cows grazing alfalfa in the complementary systemse1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Within alfalfa treatments, calves of cows grazing alfalfa pastures in the season-long system tended to produce more pounds per acre than those of cows grazing alfalfa in the complementary systems”
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