– Christine Gelley, Extension Educator, Agriculture and Natural Resources, Noble County, Ohio State University Extension
A grazing stick helps estimate days of grazing that remain in a paddock.
Measuring the amount of forage available for livestock to graze is a helpful task for designing and adjusting pasture rotations for grazing livestock. There are many potential methods for measuring the amount of forage mass that is growing in a pasture. All of them require time spent in the pasture and repetitious measurements to develop estimations of whole pasture forage availability. One of the simplest methods for estimating forage availability is using a grazing stick.
What does the grazing stick do?
A grazing stick combines information about forage height, forage density, species of forages growing in the pasture, and residual grazing heights into a tool that . . .
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