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Pasture Management

2013 Pasture Management Tips: After the Drought
by Rhonda Gildersleeve, UW-Extension Grazing Specialist

03-08-12 Grazing Management for Fall-Grown Oat Forages
A "Focus on Forage" fact sheet written by Wayne Coblentz, USDA Dairy Forage Research Center Scientist, et al.

Pastures for Profit- A Guide to Rotational Grazing $Description: Description: Description: C:\Users\Extension\Documents\Web Pages\grazing_files\pdfmid.gif$
UWEX Bulletin A3529

Supplementing Stocker Cattle on Pasture
Dr. Dan Undersander, Proceedings of the 1999 Wisconsin Forage Council Symposium

Ryegrass Overseeding on Pasture
Dr. Dan Undersander, Proceedings of the 1999 Wisconsin Forage Council Symposium

Evaluation of a Simple Method for Measuring Pasture Yields
Dr. Dennis Cosgrove, Proceedings of the 1999 Wisconsin Forage Council Symposium

Raising Stocker Cattle on Pasture
Larry Smith, Proceedings of the 1999 Wisconsin Forage Council Symposium

Holstein steers show good gains on kura clover
2002. UW-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems.

Annual ryegrass trial shows limits, promise
2000. UW-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems.

Stocker cattle convert pasture to profits
1999. UW-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems.

Dried Distillers Grains Supplement for Grazing Holstein Steers $Description: Description: Description: C:\Users\Extension\Documents\Web Pages\grazing_files\pdfmid.gif$
2004. Lehmkuhler, Crooks and Undersander. UW Madison and Lancaster Experimant Station

Animal Health

Common Poisonous Plants of Concern for Wisconsin's Livestock
Anders Gurda, research assistant, and Mark Renz, UW-Extension weed scientist, UW-Madison

Bloat
Dr. Dan Undersander, UWEX Agronomy Advice, April 1993

Preventing Bloat on Pasture
Dr. Ray Smith University of Manitoba, from the 2001 Wisconsin Forage Council Proceedings

Nitrate Poisoning in Cattle, Sheep and Goats
Dr. Dan Undersander et.al. UWEX Agronomy Advice, April 199

Do You Have Poisonous Weeds in Your Pasture and Forages?
Dr. Jerry Doll, 2002 Wisconsin Forage Council Proceedings

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Fencing Systems

Grounding Electric Fences $Description: Description: Description: C:\Users\Extension\Documents\Web Pages\grazing_files\pdfmid.gif$
Tom Cadwalleder and Dennis Cosgrove, UWEX

Understanding the Basics of Electric Fence Energizers $Description: Description: Description: C:\Users\Extension\Documents\Web Pages\grazing_files\pdfmid.gif$
Tom Cadwalleder and Dennis Cosgrove, UWEX

Keeping the Current Flowing on an Electric Fence $Description: Description: Description: C:\Users\Extension\Documents\Web Pages\grazing_files\pdfmid.gif$
Tom Cadwalleder and Dennis Cosgrove, UWEX

Protecting an Electric Fence From Lightning $Description: Description: Description: C:\Users\Extension\Documents\Web Pages\grazing_files\pdfmid.gif$
Tom Cadwalleder and Dennis Cosgrove, UWEX

Post Selection $Description: Description: Description: C:\Users\Extension\Documents\Web Pages\grazing_files\pdfmid.gif$
Tom Cadwalleder and Dennis Cosgrove, UWEX

Setting Posts $Description: Description: Description: C:\Users\Extension\Documents\Web Pages\grazing_files\pdfmid.gif$
Tom Cadwalleder and Dennis Cosgrove, UWEX

Using High Tensile Wire $Description: Description: Description: C:\Users\Extension\Documents\Web Pages\grazing_files\pdfmid.gif$
Tom Cadwalleder and Dennis Cosgrove, UWEX

Installing Braces $Description: Description: Description: C:\Users\Extension\Documents\Web Pages\grazing_files\pdfmid.gif$
Tom Cadwalleder and Dennis Cosgrove, UWEX

Line Posts $Description: Description: Description: C:\Users\Extension\Documents\Web Pages\grazing_files\pdfmid.gif$
Tom Cadwalleder and Dennis Cosgrove, UWEX

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Water Systems

Water Systems for Grazing Livestock $Description: Description: Description: C:\Users\Extension\Documents\Web Pages\grazing_files\pdfmid.gif$
Ben Bartlett

Overwintering

Outwintering dairy cattle: the fate of manure components
1999. UW-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems.

Outwintering dairy cattle: manure management issues
1998. UW-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems.

Outwintering dairy cattle: animal health issues
1998. UW-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems.

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Stockpiling

Fall Stockpiling of Forage on Pasture $Description: Description: Description: C:\Users\Extension\Documents\Web Pages\grazing_files\word.jpg$
John Cockrell et. al

Extending the Grazing Season
John Cockrell

Pastured Beef

Guide to Raising Healthy Beef Cattle
UWEX Publication A3858-04

Pastured Poultry

Poultry enterprise budget makes management decisions easier
2003. UW-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems.

Poultry enterprise budget
2003. UW-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems.

Raising poultry on pasture
2001. UW-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems.

Pastured poultry study addresses broad range of issues
1999. UW-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems.

Pasture for Horses

Pastures for Horses $Description: Description: Description: C:\Users\Extension\Documents\Web Pages\grazing_files\pdfmid.gif$
UWEX Bulletin A3680

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Identification and Growth Characteristics of Grasses and Legumes

Birdsfoot Trefoil for Grazing and Harvested Forage $Description: Description: Description: C:\Users\Extension\Documents\Web Pages\grazing_files\pdfmid.gif$
North Central Regional Publication NCR474

Red Clover - Establishment, Management and Utilization $Description: Description: Description: C:\Users\Extension\Documents\Web Pages\grazing_files\pdfmid.gif$
UWEX Bulletin A3492

Ryegrass Types for Pasture and Hay
Dr. Dennis Cosgrove, et.al. UWEX Agronomy Advice, Oct. 1996

Uses of Brassica Crops in Grazing Systems
Dr. Dan Undersander, UWEX Agronomy Advice, Dec. 1996

Identifying Pasture Grasses $Description: Description: Description: C:\Users\Extension\Documents\Web Pages\grazing_files\pdfmid.gif$
UWEX Bulletin A3637

Identifying Pasture Legumes $Description: Description: Description: C:\Users\Extension\Documents\Web Pages\grazing_files\pdfmid.gif$
UWEX Bulletin A3787

Palatability of Cool-Season Forage Grasses
Dr. Dan Undersander

Emergency Forage Plantings
Paul Peterson and others, University of Minnesota.From the 2003 Wisconsin Forage Council Proceedings. Includes information of millets and other warm season annuals for grazing.

Red Clover in the 21st Century
Dr. Richard Smith, USDA Dairy Forage Research Center. From the2000 Wisconsin Forage Council Proceedings.

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Establishing, Evaluating and Improving Pastures

Forage Variety Update for Wisconsin $Description: Description: Description: C:\Users\Extension\Documents\Web Pages\grazing_files\pdfmid.gif$
UWEX Bulletin A1525

Marketers and Traits for Grasses
Descriptions of grass characteristics and marketers

Marketers and Traits for Red Clover
Descriptions of red clover characteristics and marketers

Determining Pasture Condition $Description: Description: Description: C:\Users\Extension\Documents\Web Pages\grazing_files\pdfmid.gif$
UWEX Bulletin A3667

Frost Seeding of Forages
Dr. Dan Undersander

Frost Seeding Legumes and Grasses into Pastures
Mike Rankin, UWEX Crops and Soils Agent, Fond du Lac County

Establishment and Management of Switchgrass
Dr.Mark Renz, Dr.Dan Undersander, and Dr. Mike Casler

Increasing Pasture Quality and Sward Density
Dennis Cosgrove, UWEX Forage Specialist

Establishing Kura Clover Stands
Ken Albrecht, University of Wisconsin Agronomist

White Clover for Wisconsin Pastures
Ken Albrecht, University of Wisconsin Agronomist

Root and Crown Rots and Viral Diseases of Alfalfa and Clover
Dean Malvek, UNiversity of Illinois. From the2002 Wisconsin Forage Council Proceedings.

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Fertilization

Potassium Fertilizer Management of Pastures

A Graziers' Notebook fact sheet by Ken Barnett et al.

Nutrient Application Guidelines for Field, Vegetable, and Fruit Crops $Description: Description: Description: C:\Users\Extension\Documents\Web Pages\grazing_files\pdfmid.gif$
UW Extension Bulletin A2809 - available for viewing only in a .pdf format. Contains fertility recommendations for pastures

Nitrogen Fertilization of Pastures
Dr.Dan Undersander

Pasture Fertilization
Dr. Keith Kelling, Proceedings of the 1999 Wisconsin Forage Council Symposium

Nitrogen Management for Grass Pastures
Greg Cuomo,University of Minnesota-Morris, Proceedings of the 2000 Wisconsin Forage Council Symposium

Nitrogen Management in Rotationally Grazed Pastures $Description: Description: Description: C:\Users\Extension\Documents\Web Pages\grazing_files\pdfmid.gif$
Dennis Cosgrove UWEX Forage Specialist.

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Weed Control

Pest Management in Wisconsin Field Crops $Description: Description: Description: C:\Users\Extension\Documents\Web Pages\grazing_files\pdfmid.gif$
UW Extension Bulletin A3646 - available for viewing only in a .pdf format. Includes information on controlling perennial weeds in pasture

Pasture Weed Management after a Drought
Mark Renz UW-Extension Weed Scientist

Biological control of Canada thistle: more work needed
2003. UW-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems.

Bull, Plumeless, Musk and Canada Thistle: Their Biology and Management in Pastures $Description: Description: Description: C:\Users\Extension\Documents\Web Pages\grazing_files\pdfmid.gif$
Dr. Jerry Doll, UWEX Agronomy Advice

Weed Control in Pastures Without Chemicals $Description: Description: Description: C:\Users\Extension\Documents\Web Pages\grazing_files\pdfmid.gif$
Drs. Dennis Cosgrove and Jerry Doll, UWEX Agronomy Advice

Pasture Ecology

Managed Grazing and Stream Ecosystems $Description: Description: Description: C:\Users\Extension\Documents\Web Pages\grazing_files\pdfmid.gif$
Laura Paine, UWEX Crops and Soils Agent, Columbia County and John Lyons, WDNR

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Software

Determining Pasture Needs $Description: Description: Description: C:\Users\Extension\Documents\Web Pages\grazing_files\excel.jpg$
A spreadsheet to help evaluate pasture resource needs based on animal numbers

Pasture Nitrogen Fertilizer Profit Calculator $Description: Description: Description: C:\Users\Extension\Documents\Web Pages\grazing_files\excel.jpg$
A spreadsheet to help evaluate the cost versus return for urea applications to pastures

Pasture Dry Matter Intake Calculator for Dairy Cows $Description: Description: Description: C:\Users\Extension\Documents\Web Pages\grazing_files\excel.jpg$
A spreadsheet which uses net energy values to estimate pasture dry matter intake for grazing dairy cows

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Economics

Pastures of plenty: Financial performance of Wisconsin grazing dairy farms
2005. Tom Kriegl and Ruth McNair. UW-Madison Center for Dairy Profitability and UW-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems.

Dairy goat enterprise budget
2004. UW-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems.

Dairy grazing can provide good financial return
2000. UW-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems.

Grazing's potential: expansion's effects on cash flow
1998. UW-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems.

Grazing's potential: predicting expansion's cost, profit
1998. UW-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems.

Management intensive rotational grazing's sense...and dollars
1996. UW-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems.

Management Intensive Rotational Grazing on Wisconsin Dairy Farms: the 1990s
Results of a study conducted by the Program on Agricultural Technology Studies at UW-Madison on
the use of rotational grazing on Wisconsin Dairy Farms

Wisconsin Grazing Profitibility Analysis I $Description: Description: Description: C:\Users\Extension\Documents\Web Pages\grazing_files\word.jpg$
Tom Kriegl, Wisconsin Center for Dairy Profitibility. Fifth year summary of a study analyzing factors
affecting dairy grazing profitibility.

Wisconsin Grazing Profitibility Analysis II $Description: Description: Description: C:\Users\Extension\Documents\Web Pages\grazing_files\word.jpg$
Tom Kriegl, Wisconsin Center for Dairy Profitibility. Summary of a presentation at the 2001 Wisconsin Forage
Council Annual Meeting

Wisconsin Grazing Profitibility Analysis III $Description: Description: Description: C:\Users\Extension\Documents\Web Pages\grazing_files\excel.jpg$
Tom Kriegl, Wisconsin Center for Dairy Profitibility. Excel spreadsheet showing cost of production for
grazing versus confinement dairies.

Wisconsin Grazing Profitibility Analysis IV $Description: Description: Description: C:\Users\Extension\Documents\Web Pages\grazing_files\excel.jpg$
Tom Kriegl, Wisconsin Center for Dairy Profitibility. Several additional Excel spreadsheet showing cost of
production for different types of grazing dairy farms.

Acres vs. Cows-Comparing Financial Measures
Tom Kriegl, Wisconsin Center for Dairy Profitibility

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Teaching Aides

Beef Grazing Opportunities $Description: Description: Description: C:\Users\Extension\Documents\Web Pages\grazing_files\powerpoint.jpg$
Power Point Presentation by Craig Saxe, UWEX Crops and Soils Agent, Juneau County

Pasture for Horses 2000 $Description: Description: Description: C:\Users\Extension\Documents\Web Pages\grazing_files\powerpoint.jpg$
Power Point Presentation by Craig Saxe, UWEX Crops and Soils Agent, Juneau County

Sheep Grazing Opportunities $Description: Description: Description: C:\Users\Extension\Documents\Web Pages\grazing_files\powerpoint.jpg$
Power Point Presentation by Craig Saxe, UWEX Crops and Soils Agent, Juneau County

Stockpiling Cool-Season Grasses for Winter Grazing $Description: Description: Description: C:\Users\Extension\Documents\Web Pages\grazing_files\powerpoint.jpg$
A Presentation on research conducted to determine species and fertility aspects of stockpiling.

Backgrounding Calves on Pasture $Description: Description: Description: C:\Users\Extension\Documents\Web Pages\grazing_files\powerpoint.jpg$
Power Point Presentation by Scott Hendrickson, UWEX Crops and Soils Agent, ManitowocCounty

Increasing Pasture Quality and Sward Density
Power Point Presentation by Dennis Cosgrove UWEX Forage Specialist.

Low Cost Parlor Options $Description: Description: Description: C:\Users\Extension\Documents\Web Pages\grazing_files\powerpoint.jpg$
Power Point Presentation by Vance Haugen UWEX Crops and Soils Agent, Crawford County and Dave
Kammel, UW- Madison

The Good, Bad and Ugly of Grass Varieties $Description: Description: Description: C:\Users\Extension\Documents\Web Pages\grazing_files\powerpoint.jpg$
Power Point Presentation by Mike Casler, Dept.ot Agronomy, UW- Madison

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Pictures

Water System Photos

Fencing Photos

Links

Wisconsin State Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative (GLCI)

Grassworks, Inc

Grazers' Notebook
A series of Fact Sheets and Research Reviews related to grazing.

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Pasture Weed Management after a Drought Mark Renz UW-Extension Weed Scientist

Pasture Weed Management after a Drought
Mark Renz UW-Extension Weed Scientist