A common misconception about late summer and fall range grass is that low-quality forages serve only as fillers and have little value as feed. If this were universally true, wild ruminants would not be able to survive. Join Tip Hudson and Don Llewellyn for Art of Range episode #20 as they discuss how to get ruminants to digest low-quality forages. Rumen physiology, ruminant nutrition, and the fine points of proper protein supplementation for cattle on late summer/fall/winter range and pasture are all on tap.

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LINKS

Feeding Beef Cattle I: The Realities of Low-Quality Forages, by Don Llewellyn. http://pubs.cahnrs.wsu.edu/publications/pubs/em053e/

Feeding Beef Cattle II: Fetal Programming, by Don Llewellyn. http://pubs.cahnrs.wsu.edu/publications/pubs/em060e/

(REQUEST WET CHEMISTRY, NOT NIR, WHEN YOU SUBMIT A RANGE SAMPLE FOR ANALYSIS)

Forage Analysis Interpretation, Montana State University. http://msuextension.org/publications/AgandNaturalResources/MT201609AG.pdf

Understanding Forage Test Results, Oregon State University. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/ddbe/4436492e61471e1ea718426edb2f50a9f6dc.pdf

Supplementing Beef Cows

Mineral Supplementation of Beef Cows in the Pacific Northwest. https://www.extension.uidaho.edu/publishing/pdf/PNW/PNW670.pdf