scholarly journals Grazing Management Practices among West Virginia Beef Producers

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcus T. McCartney
Keyword(s):  
West Virginia ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Grazing Management ◽  
Beef Producers

BeefCheque — a 'dirty boots' approach to achieving profitable beef production in Gippsland

2004 ◽  
Vol 44 (9) ◽  
pp. 851 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. A. Howard ◽  
S. J. Walsh ◽  
K. S. Lamb
Keyword(s):  
Management Practices ◽  
Project Success ◽  
Median Number ◽  
Grazing Management ◽  
Farm Income ◽  
Net Income ◽  
Beef Producers ◽  
Dry Conditions ◽  
On Farm ◽  
Operating Surplus

The objective of the BeefCheque extension programme is to provide producers with the skills to grow and use more pasture, produce more beef and make more money. A pilot programme operated in Gippsland (in Australia’s South East) from 1995 to 2000 using 15 beef producer groups, each centred on a focus farm, and consisted of monthly farm walks and other ‘dirty boots’ activities. Each BeefCheque group progressed through a series of activities planned by the group and their facilitator. A total of 420 producers participated, with 250 producers participating at any one point in time (9% of Gippsland beef producers and 19% of cattle produced in Gippsland). Project success was evaluated using Bennett’s hierarchy as a framework. In a survey at the end of the first 5 years, 94% of respondents had tried one or more new grazing management practices, and 54% had tried at least 11 new grazing management practices. This had increased from 2 years previously when the median number of practices learnt was 9 or more. An analysis of a small percentage of farms involved in benchmarking over 4 years (10–21% of producers involved in BeefCheque) showed significant increases in total liveweight output (kg/ha), saleyard price ($/kg beef liveweight), gross farm income ($/ha), net income ($/ha) and farm operating surplus ($/ha). These results matched or exceeded the goals set for the first 5 years and were achieved despite 3 years of exceptionally dry conditions. The success of BeefCheque has been attributed to its use of practical on-farm demonstrations, farm walks and rigorous discussions leading to trialing and use of grazing management practices that increase pasture utilisation and, ultimately, profitability. This led to the overall conclusion that the ‘dirty boots’ activities and approach are important for developing skills and achieving significant change at all levels of farm management.

Management of grazing systems

1989 ◽  
pp. 117-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Hodgson
Keyword(s):  
Management Practices ◽  
Management Control ◽  
Grazing Management ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Stocking Rate ◽  
Pastoral Systems ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Alternative Means ◽  
Grazing Systems ◽  
Stocking Rates

Recent assessments of the relative importance of stocking rate. stocking policy and grazing management on the output from pastoral systems are used as a starting point to argue the need for objective pasture assessments to aid control of livestock enterprises to meet production targets. Variations in stocking rates, stocking policy and other management practices all provide alternative means of control of pasture conditions which are the major determinants of pasture and animal performance. Understanding of the influence of pasture conditions on systems performance should provide a better basis for management control and for Communication between farmers, extension officers and researchers. Keywords: Stocking rate, pasture condition, pasture cover

Social landscape of the night parrot in western Queensland, Australia

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen T. Garnett ◽  
Mark Kleinschmidt ◽  
Micha V. Jackson ◽  
Kerstin K. Zander ◽  
Stephen A. Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Management Practices ◽  
Species Conservation ◽  
Grazing Management ◽  
Collaborative Management ◽  
Property Management ◽  
Social Landscape ◽  
Wild Dog ◽  
High Level ◽  
Wild Dogs

The attitudes of the owners or managers of properties potentially supporting populations of night parrot (Pezoporus occidentalis) in western Queensland, Australia, were explored using interviews to understand whether they would be sympathetic to the species’ conservation. Eighteen interviews were carried out by a former member of the local grazing community and found a high level of support for conservation, especially if it did not unduly disrupt existing grazing management practices and there was compensation in the event property management needed to change. This included trying to limit burning and not overgrazing habitat in which the parrot might occur. It also included the cessation of wild dog baiting, which is conducted to reduce calf losses, although concern about wild dogs was deeply entrenched. While some graziers were indifferent, none were openly antagonistic to parrot conservation that might involve their property. The results suggest that collaborative management with local graziers can contribute substantially to conservation of the night parrot in the region and any fears that graziers might be antagonistic to night parrot conservation are ill-founded.

Insights on the relationship between total grazing pressure management and sustainable land management: key indicators to verify impacts

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 535 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. M. Waters ◽  
S. E. McDonald ◽  
J. Reseigh ◽  
R. Grant ◽  
D. G. Burnside
Keyword(s):  
Land Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Temporal Trends ◽  
Grazing Intensity ◽  
Grazing Pressure ◽  
Environmental Stewardship ◽  
Grazing Management ◽  
Sustainable Land Management ◽  
Key Indicators ◽  
The Impact

Demonstrating sustainable land management (SLM) requires an understanding of the linkages between grazing management and environmental stewardship. Grazing management practices that incorporate strategic periods of rest are promoted internationally as best practice. However, spatial and temporal trends in unmanaged feral (goat) and native (kangaroo) populations in the southern Australian rangelands can result land managers having, at times, control over less than half the grazing pressure, precluding the ability to rest pastures. Few empirical studies have examined the impacts of total grazing pressure (TGP) on biodiversity and resource condition, while the inability to manage grazing intensity at critical times may result in negative impacts on ground cover, changes in pasture species composition, increased rates of soil loss and reduce the ability for soils to store carbon. The widespread adoption of TGP control through exclusion fencing in the southern Australian rangelands has created unprecedented opportunities to manage total grazing pressure, although there is little direct evidence that this infrastructure leads to more sustainable land management. Here we identify several key indicators that are either outcome- or activity-based that could serve as a basis for verification of the impacts of TGP management. Since TGP is the basic determinant of the impact of herbivory on vegetation it follows that the ability for rangeland pastoral management to demonstrate SLM and environmental stewardship will rely on using evidence-based indicators to support environmental social licence to operate.

scholarly journals Assessment of Compliance of Forestry Best Management Practices in West Virginia

2007 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 60-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingxin Wang ◽  
Joseph McNeel ◽  
William Goff ◽  
Steve Milauskas
Keyword(s):  
West Virginia ◽  
Best Management Practices ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Management Zones ◽  
Best Management ◽  
Random List ◽  
Streamside Management Zones ◽  
Increasing Trend ◽  
Assessment Of Compliance

Abstract The compliance of forestry best management practices (BMP) was assessed based on 116 randomly selected sites harvested between November 2003 and March 2004 in West Virginia. Landowners were contacted to gain permission for site visits according to the random list. The landowners also were interviewed to identify their knowledge and satisfaction about the harvest and BMP. Four checklists were used to assess 29 BMPs on haul roads, skid trails, landings, and in streamside management zones (SMZ). A general increasing trend in BMP compliance was noted in this statewide BMP assessment with an overall BMP compliance of 74%. Results also indicated that the BMP compliances averaged 81% on haul roads, 68% on skid trails, 80% on landings, and 55% in SMZs.

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