This two year study used yearling heifers near Mead, Nebraska on an improved pasture seeded to big blue stem (Andropogon gerardii var. gerardii). The goal was to determine if cattle grazing could control weeds and be an effective alternative to herbicides. Six weed control treatments (no control, artazine application, continuous grazing, early-season continuous grazing, mob grazing, early-season mob grazing) were applied to paddocks that were seeded back to big bluestem. Implementation of these grazing treatments had to be altered in the second year due to high levels of nitrates in the weeds.
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