Richard V. Machen

What's Limiting: Quality or Quantity?: Can cattle standing in belly-deep grass actually be hungry?

Range cattle performance depends on both forage quality and forage quantity. A simple, effective set of tools is available to cattlemen to help detect whether forage quality or quantity are limiting performance. Nutritional computer models have been developed to estimate beef cattle performance. Fox1 suggested that these models require 1) adequate information and 2) user under standing to adjust models to ranch levels. In other words, models can be calibrated to a ranch.

What's Limiting: Quality or Quantity?

Range cattle performance depends on both forage quality and forage quantity. A simple, effective set of tools is available to cattlemen to help detect whether forage quality or quantity are limiting performance. Nutritional computer models have been developed to estimate beef cattle performance. Fox1 suggested that these models require 1) adequate information and 2) user under standing to adjust models to ranch levels. In other words, models can be calibrated to a ranch.

Feature ArticlesWhat's Limiting: Quality or Quantity?: Can cattle standing in belly-deep grass actually be hungry?

Range cattle performance depends on both forage quality and forage quantity. A simple, effective set of tools is available to cattlemen to help detect whether forage quality or quantity are limiting performance. Nutritional computer models have been developed to estimate beef cattle performance. Fox1 suggested that these models require 1) adequate information and 2) user under standing to adjust models to ranch levels. In other words, models can be calibrated to a ranch.