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Section III Major Research Findings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Pasture Investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Meat Production from Grass-Clover Mixtures and Nitrogen Fertilized Grasses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Milk Products from Tall Fescue Varieties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Palatability of Pastures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Milk per Cow from Pastures and Hay with Rates of Supplements . . . . . . . . . 35 Feeding Grain and Protein of Pastures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Stocking Rates Improve Efficiency of Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Continuous or Rotational Grazing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Rotational Grazing for High Animal Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Animals Injure Pastures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Practical Management with a 12-Month Forage Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Silage and Hays for Feeder Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Nutritive Value of Silage and Hay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Factors Determining Silage Feeding Quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Silage and Hays for Feeder Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Fattening Yearly Cattle on Silage Rations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 The Beef Herd - Raising Cattle Efficiently . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Value of Milk from Beef Cows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Feeding Rates of Cows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Silage, a Good Feed for Calves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Management and Feeding Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Feeding Rates of Cows and Methods of Separating Cows and Calves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
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