Management Strategies for Sustainable Cattle Production in Southern Pastures is a practical resource for scientists, students, and stakeholders who want to understand the relationships between soil-plant interactions and pasture management strategies, and the resultant performance of cow-calf and stocker cattle. This book illustrates the importance of matching cattle breed types and plant hardiness zones to optimize cattle production from forages and pastures. It explains the biologic and economic implications of grazing management decisions made to improve sustainability of pastures and cattle production while being compliant with present and future environmental concerns and cattle welfare programs. - Documents the effects of cattle grazing on greenhouse gas emissions and carbon footprints - Discusses strategies to enhance soil fertility, soil health, and nutrient cycling in pastures - Provides information on the use of stocking rates, stocking strategies and grazing systems to optimize cow-calf production of weaned calves and stockers. - Presents innovations in cattle supplementation and watering systems to minimize negative impacts on water and soil health - Includes methods for weed control to maintain pasture condition and ecosystem stability - Describes management strategies to integrate cattle operations with wildlife sustainability

Up to 1988, the December issue contained a cumulative list of decisions reported for the year, by act, docket numbers arranged in consecutive order, and cumulative subject-index, by act.

"The assessment builds on the work of the Livestock, Environment and Development (LEAD) Initiative"--Pref.

Feeder cattle are placed into feedlots at varying weights. This placement weight is the result of procurement decisions by cattle feeders and of marketing decisions by cow/calf and stocker/backgrounder producers. Increased understanding of the behavior of these markets can help both buyers and sellers of feeder cattle make these decisions. Past research has used linear or quadratic variables or interaction variables in order to model the effects of weight on price. This study instead divides the market for feeder cattle into ten distinct subsets which are evaluated independently. The feeder cattle market for four major cattle feeding states in the Southern Great Plains (Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas) was divided into ten subsets, five in each gender. Each of these represent feeder cattle coming to market in a 50 pound weight range, centered upon 525, 625, 725, 825 and 925 pounds. Each of these subsets was analyzed using seven independent variables selected based upon previous research and economic rationale. These variables were the live futures price, previous feedlot returns, feeder cattle inventory, interest rate, feedlot capacity utilization, cost of gain and pasture conditions. The data for these variables were collected from public sources, aggregated into monthly observations and differenced to correct for nonstationarity. Analysis was conducted using ordinary least squares regressions. Results are reported and trends between weight classes discussed along with their implications. Findings support that feeder cattle of different weights are not perfect substitutes and that market and production factors do not influence all weights of feeder cattle the same. In fact, factors which positively and negatively affect feeder cattle price seem to signal that demand for, or in the case of pasture supply of, feeder cattle of a particular weight has changed and that placement price-weight relationships will adjust accordingly.