Summer grazing goals
Summer pasture management should focus around 3 main goals:
· Meet the nutritional needs of cows in mid lactation (spring calving)
· Make sure pasture paddocks are not over-grazed, maintain good leaf residual and
· Set some paddocks up for stockpiling
Meeting the nutritional needs of cows in mid lactation involves knowing what the nutritional requirements are and it is also necessary to have some idea of what nutrient level is being provided by the pasture forage. According to NRC tables, minimum nutrient requirements in terms of crude protein (CP) and total digestible nutrients (TDN) expressed as a percentage of the dry matter (DM) intake and as pounds of DM needed daily are as follows:
It can be noted that it does not take high quality forages to meet these nutrient requirements. It should also be noted that those first calf heifers do have a higher requirement than mature cows because they are still growing, and they require a more nutrient dense diet because their total DM intake is less than mature cows.
Our next step is to look at the potential of pasture forages to meet these animal requirements. We have already noted that the requirements can be met by less than high quality forage. A key concept is that forage quality is strongly correlated with forage maturity. In other words as the forage matures from the vegetative stage to boot stage and then on to seed head development and post seed head, both crude protein and TDN content decline. Some general book values of what might be expected in terms of CP% and TDN% at various maturity stages are provided in the following table:
Pastures in the early head stage, where the heads have emerged, and the flowers are fully open and there are some immature seeds meet the nutritional needs of both the mature cow and the first calf heifer. When the forage matures to the late head stage where the seeds are in the milk stage and soft it is likely that this forage will not meet the nutritional needs of the first calf heifer and it is border line forage for meeting the needs of the mid-lactation mature cow.
The challenge in pasture management this year has been clipping pastures to remove seed heads, in most cases the soil has been too wet. As soils begin to dry, clipping some pasture paddocks to improve forage quality may be a good management practice, especially if there are first calf heifers in the herd.
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