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Forage Quality of Mountain Meadows and Irrigated Pastures

Irrigated pastures and meadows provide an important summer forage base for livestock operations. Management and site factors influence the production and nutritional value of forage and, in turn, livestock performance.

Publication Number:: 8564

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Grazing Systems Management: Achieving Management Goals . . .

Time was, herded livestock could be led over the wide landscape to wherever the feed and water were best, but fences and property rights restrict most modern herds to much smaller ranges. Time and space are big issues for today's herder.

Publication Number:: 8529

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Guidelines for Describing Grazing Management & Utilization

Terms and quantification techniques to help you accurately assess the effects of livestock grazing when you conduct a botanical survey of an area.

Publication Number:: 7225

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Guidelines for Residual Dry Matter (RDM) Management

Properly managed RDM can be expected to provide a high degree of protection from soil erosion and nutrient loss. Applications of specific RDM standards based on research and experience have shown the effectiveness of this approach to grazing management.

Publication Number:: 8092

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Livestock Protection Tools for California Ranchers

Conflicts between livestock and predators are perhaps inevitable, especially on extensively managed rangelands This publication helps producers evaluate livestock protection tools that may fit their site-specific needs.

Publication Number:: 8598

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Livestock-Poisoning Plants of California

Horses, goats, sheep, and cattle can sicken or die if they eat from a poisonous plant. The best strategy is just to keep these plants out of reach. Here are photos, ID info, and poisoning symptoms for more than 30 hazardous ornamental and range plants.

Publication Number:: 8398

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Managing Small Ruminant Nutrition in Chaparral

Chaparral is a fire-prone shrubland plant community that grows across roughly 7 million acres of coastal and inland California. Land managers are turning to targeted grazing of sheep and goats on chaparral to reduce fire risk.

Publication Number:: 8717

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Managing Smutgrass in Irrigated Pastures

Small smutgrass is a grass that grows well in irrigated pastures but is not palatable to livestock. So what happens if it grows well and it doesn't get eaten? It takes over the pasture! Learn some simple control measures that will keep this weed in check

Publication Number:: 8473

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Photo-Monitoring for Better Land Use Planning & Assessment

A set of photographs taken every year from the same locations can give you a better sense of how natural events, cultural practices, and other factors change your rangeland property over time.

Publication Number:: 8067

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Profiles of California Brush

Brush species have low nutritional value and present challenges to targeted grazing management. Livestock producers can use this publication to identify selected toxic brush species found in the California chaparral.

Publication Number:: 8527

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Ranch Water Quality Planning: Instructor’s Guide and Lesson Plan

This updated guide and lesson plan provides a scientific overview of water quality for livestock operations in a turn-key approach.

Publication Number:: 6700

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Ranch Water Quality Planning: RWQP Template

These 10 worksheets are designed to help participants in a ranch water quality short course to develop plans for their property. Includes Worksheets 1-10 (Publications 6701 - 6710) in a single download.

Publication Number:: 6711

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Ranch Water Quality Planning: Video Files

This updated guide and lesson plan provides a scientific overview of water quality for livestock operations in a turn-key approach. Included here are the 41 video modules in a zip file download.

Publication Number:: 6712

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Ranching Infrastructure: Tools for Healthy Grasslands, Livestock, and Ranchers

Part of the Understanding Working Rangelands series. Ranch roads, fencing, gates, water systems, corrals, and working scales play a key role in proper management of livestock and effective management of rangelands.

Publication Number:: 8561

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Rangeland Management Series: Annual Range Forage Production

An understanding of how climatic factors influence forage productivity can help growers predict the need to provide supplemental feed. The download is a zip file containing a PDF file of the publication and an Excel file of Appendix A.

Publication Number:: 8018

Rangeland Management Series: Annual Rangeland Forage Quality

Livestock on California's foothill rangelands get much of their nutrition from rangeland forage plants. Year-to-year variations in environmental conditions determine the nutrient content of this forage.

Publication Number:: 8022

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Rangeland Management Series: Balancing Beef Cow Nutrient Requirements and Season

Livestock on California's foothill rangelands get much of their nutrition from rangeland forage plants. The publication helps you strike the best balance of range forage to purchased feed in any given year.

Publication Number:: 8021

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Rangeland Management Series: Factors and Practices that Influence Livestock. . .

Fine-tuning traditional livestock distribution techniques can improve effectiveness. Learn how to use management practices to alter distribution and to attract livestock into targeted grazing areas or away from environmentally critical areas.

Publication Number:: 8217

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Rangeland Management Series: Guidelines for Monitoring Riparian Grazing Systems

It takes skill and careful study for a rangeland owner to determine the success of a newly established riparing grazing area. Here you’ll find a systematic approach to monitoring and analysis, and includes a set of useful sample record forms.

Publication Number:: 8094

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Rangeland Management Series: Using Stage of Maturity to Predict the Quality . .

Livestock on California's foothill rangelands get much of their nutrition from rangeland forage. By observing the maturation rate of forage plants, you can predict their nutritional content at maturity and anticipate the need to provide supplemental feed

Publication Number:: 8019

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Rangeland Monitoring Series: Sediment Delivery Inventory and Monitoring

This easy-to-use worksheet and photographic record method gives any landowner a simple way to monitor streamside erosion and waterway sediment data for use in land management decisions or to demonstrate compliance with water quality standards.

Publication Number:: 8014

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Rangeland Monitoring Series: Visual Assessment of Riparian Health

Color guide to a standardized method for assessing the condition of riparian areas, for landowners, managers, and resource professionals.

Publication Number:: 8089

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Rapid User Guide: Postfire Grazing on California's Intermountain Rangelands

"When can livestock resume grazing?" This is one of the first questions that land managers and producers often ask after a fire. This user guide will walk you through grazing management decisions that should be made in the spring following fire

Publication Number:: 8730

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RWQP Pasture Assessment Worksheets: 4A Sediment & 4B Pathogens and Nutrients

This updated guide and lesson plan provides a scientific overview of water quality for livestock operations in a turn-key approach. These are the Pasture Assessment Worksheets: 4A Sediment and 4B Pathogens and Nutrients, used in Lesson Plan 9.

Publication Number:: 6704

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