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Grazing and Harvesting by Humberto Blanco-Canqui is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Grazing and Harvesting about?

Cover crops were not initially designed for grazing nor harvesting. Their main function was to cover and protect the soil from erosion, maintain or improve soil fertility and productivity, and provide other services related to soil. However, interest is now growing in using cover crops as a component of integrated croplivestock systems (Figure .1). It is considered that reintegrating crops with livestock via grazing crop residues and cover crops can reduce soil degradation, improve environmental quality, and increase overall farm profitability relative to systems with separation of crops from livestock production . Increasing conversion of grasslands to croplands coupled with increased extreme weather events has reduced forage availability, prompting the need to locate additional forage supplies.Many consider grazing or harvesting cover crops to be an important piece to support livestock production in seasons when forage availability is limited while diversifying current cropping systems and potentially maintaining or improving soil ecosystem services . Grazing cover crops could extend the grazing season and alleviate the sole reliance on crop residues and grasslands or pastureland

Author

Humberto Blanco-Canqui

Publisher

Wiley

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9780891186427

Subjects

Science, Management, Social Science