Three-Year Evaluation of Warm-Season Annual Forages in Summer Forage-Finishing Beef Production

An abstract of a study by Harmon et al evaluating forage production, animal performance and carcass merit from forage-finished steers grazing four warm-season annual forages is presented. The grazing trial was conducted in 2014, 2015, and 2016. Sixteen pastures were assigned to one of four forage tr...

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Published inJournal of animal science Vol. 95; p. 22
Main Authors Harmon, D D, Lacey, J L, Hancock, D, Segers, J O, Stelzleni, A M, Teutsch, C D, Stewart, L
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Champaign Oxford University Press 01.01.2017
Subjects
Beef
Feeds
Forage
Grazing
Meat quality
Millet
Pasture
Pastures
Pennisetum glaucum
Seasons
Sorghum
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Summary:An abstract of a study by Harmon et al evaluating forage production, animal performance and carcass merit from forage-finished steers grazing four warm-season annual forages is presented. The grazing trial was conducted in 2014, 2015, and 2016. Sixteen pastures were assigned to one of four forage treatments in a randomized complete block design. Forage treatments were brown midrib sorghum x sudangrass (BMR), sorghum x sudangrass (SS), pearl millet (PM), or pearl millet planted with crabgrass (PMCG). Results suggest that cattle on BMR, SS, PM, and PMCG perform similarly, giving producers the option to match a forage type based on the availability, cost, and their production system.
ISSN:0021-8812
1525-3163
DOI:10.2527/ssasas2017.045