Get reliable science

Managing annual grass infestations can be difficult and very expensive. It’s a regular occurrence that that an expensive treatment is applied and no reduction in annual grass invasion occurs. Using livestock grazing can be an excellent way to manage annual grasses and actually provide some direct benefits in animal production.

Grazing management can be complicated with very sophisticated grazing system designs, but in this document we discuss a simple method for managing livestock to control annual grasses while allowing perennial grasses to reoccupy the sites and generating more animal production. It’s called “Green and Brown” grazing to manage annual grasses: graze when invasive annual grasses are green and desired species are brown. This strategy is also known as time-controlled, short-duration, high-intensity grazing.