Forage quality
Principles of Forage Quality and Evaluation for Grazing Livestock
This online course provides an in-depth study of the chemical characteristics of forage components and the interactions with ruminant physiology and digestion that influence forage feeding value and the laboratory procedures used to evaluate forages for grazing livestock.
Animal Production Systems
This course deals with the specific issues involved in developing animal management systems for one or more species of animals in a forage-based environment. The content integrates ecological, nutritional, and reproductive traits to comprise good alternative routes to achieve desired product outputs. Genetic improvement methodology is presented as an alternative to increasing performance of the animal enterprise.
Integrated Forage Management
Development of management plans that integrate diverse forage resources including native rangeland and cultivated forages.
Understanding and Managing Animal Resources
This course focuses on nutritional planes for animals in forage-based environments and their impacts on reproduction in grazing animals. The focus is evaluating the nutritional requirements of a variety of animals including wildlife, and how those requirements vary by stage and type of production, body size, activity and environmental stress. The course evaluates different techniques to quantify the nutritional status of animals as well as explore effectiveness of nutritional supplementation.
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The creation of this Rangeland Science Course Catalog was made possible by USDA Higher Education Challenge Grant No. 2010-38411-21370 "Repositioning Rangeland Education for a Changing World."
