Cattle behavior used to control noxious weeds
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Authors: M. Parman
Date: 1986
Journal: Rangelands
Volume: 8
Number: 4
Pages: 183
Summary of Methods: This paper is a summary of observations were made by practitioners in the field trying to use cattle behavior to control leafy spurge.
Article Summary / Main Points: • After one year of a short-duration, high-intensity HRM grazing system, cattle seem to have had an impact on the density of leafy spurge.
Vegetation Types: Northern Mixed Prairie Shortgrass Prairie
MLRA Ecoregions: 53A Northern Dark Brown Glaciated Plains
Agrovoc Control Words: Grazing Rangelands Weeds
Article Review Type: Peer Reviewed
Article Type: Professional Resource Knowledge
Keywords: leafy spurge, grazing, cattle, targeted grazing
Annotation: This observational paper illustrates the impact livestock grazing in a short-duration, high-intensity grazing system can have on a rangeland. Without any specific measurements or pictures of the results from even the first year of this grazing system no real conclusions can be reached. It would be interesting to have had the impact of this grazing on leafy spurge and native populations documented.
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