The Florida Grazing Lands Coalition (FGLC) and the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) have have worked closely together in developing two new management tools to help Florida landowners make "in the field" management and planning decisions for range and pastureland. The Florida Grazing Stick and the Forage Suitability Groups (FSG's) are two new tools designed to help ranchers optimize forage and cattle production. The Grazing Stick is a tool that can be used in the field to help ranchers monitor stubble height and make quick real time decisions to Start or Stop a grazing event. The Florida FSG's are used in the planning and development of improved forage pastureland, these documents are based on similar soil groupings that help ranchers in choosing suitably forage species for planting, provide estimated forage production and gives soil group limitations affecting production.
Oral presentation and poster titles, abstracts, and authors from the Society for Range Management (SRM) Annual Meetings and Tradeshows, from 2013 forward.