The Cow and Her Grass: Rational Grazing - A Manual of Grass Productivity
The Cow and Her Grass: Rational Grazing - A Manual of Grass Productivity

Author: Andre Voisin

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2014-12-02

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 1312724331

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This book by Messrs Voisin and Lecomte comes at the right moment. It is a synthesis of M. Voisin's important study, Grass Productivity. This manual presents the chief ideas of two specialists. Since they are also excellent practitioners, they have applied these ideas before recommending them. Their evocative picture of 'the meeting of cow and grass' poses the true problem of the management of grazed grass. For the farmer, the production of meat and milk is an act of industrial conversion. The 'machine' is the animal that converts raw vegetable matter into finished food products which are rich in calories and easy to assimilate. This 'machine' is complex because it is a living being; it can be improved--within limits. But its yield depends basically on the quality of the raw materials offered to it for conversion. I hope that their words will be heard and followed. [From the Introduction]

Sustainable Development
Sustainable Development

Author: Okechukwu Ukaga

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2010-01-07

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1439820635

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Coined in the 1970s, the term sustainable development and the ideas behind it have enjoyed varying amounts of popularity over the years. And while dire predictions abound, the full impacts of global warming are not known, nor can they be known. What we do know is that to be sustainable, all societies must adjust to new realities, which include chan

Grass Productivity: An Introduction to Rational Grazing
Grass Productivity: An Introduction to Rational Grazing

Author: Dr. Robert C. Worstell

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2015-01-13

Total Pages: 503

ISBN-13: 1312832843

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SIMPLE questions often help us to understand problems better; and I think it indispensable, at the beginning of this work, to ask a question which appears simple in the extreme: "What is grazing?" The answer is generally as follows: "Causing grass to be eaten by an animal." That is correct! But here is another answer which, to my mind, is more realistic: "Causing the grass and the animal to meet." Since this book is almost exclusively concerned with grazing by cattle, I propose the following definition to the reader, requesting him to allow it to become well impressed upon his mind: Grazing is the meeting of cow and grass. It is by satisfying as far as possible the demands of both parties that we will arrive at a rational grazing, which will provide us with maximum productivity on the part of the grass while at the same time allowing the cow to give optimum performance. [From the Introduction]