Important grazing species

2015-02-11T00:53:53Z

73.34.249.3: starting with colorado grazing species

==Important Grazing Plant Species==
Understanding appropriate plant species for grazing in specific environments increases forage production and quality, encourages animal health, and discourages weed invasion. It
protects soil and increases water infiltration rates and soil organic matter content.

===Great Plains of North America===

====Colorado====
* [[ Wiki: Kentucky bluegrass]]

Kentucky bluegrass provides good grazing and tolerates
trampling but is not highly productive. Overgrazing or undergrazing
bluegrass for short periods is not harmful. Because it tolerates trampling and
overgrazing, it works well as a component of horse pastures. Keep between a
height of 2 and 6 inches. Crude protein can be 20% at maturity.

RAWiki:Contributors: to do items

2015-02-10T22:58:57Z

73.34.249.3: /* Elias Lehnart */

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===[[Andre Houssney]]===
* Andre's todo: Everything
* Identify possible outside contributors to RAWiki, add them to the list of [[RAWiki:possible contributors]], match them with articles that they could write and contact them to ask for their participation
* Get others to help with the above.

===Daniel Rankin===
*[[Arduino]]
*[[Agronimo]]

===Kierstyn Bristol===
*[[Jacob Springs milk share procedures]]

===Steven Kluck===
*[[Agroecology]], [[christian agroecology]] define and expand on these topics
*[[ECHO]]
*[[Tropical Agriculture]]

===Ethan Eakin===
*[[cow-calf operation]]
*[[cattle]] - terminology and species information page similar to [[swine]]
*[[Cattle breeds]] overview of important cattle breeds (both to industry and agroecology) breakout individual pages for most important breeds
*[[cattle breeding]] talk about breeding goals and methods of the conventional industry and of more traditional or agroecological breeders

===Elias Lehnert===
*[[Important grazing species]] - identify the 25 most important species of perennial plant to grazing systems globally - categorize them by biome (e.g. Miombo forest, oak savannah, north american great plains etc.); create a template for presenting information relevant to herdsman on each pant species - create stub articles about each species using information from wikipedia and grazing science handbooks.
*Important crop species - identify the 25 most important food crops globally - create a template for presenting information relevant to farmers on each pant species - create stub articles about each species using information from wikipedia and other sources.
*Important pest species - identify the 25 most important pest species globally - create a template for presenting information relevant to farmers and herdsmen on each pant species - create stub articles about each species using information from wikipedia and other sources.
*Holistic grazing - write on the [[Savory Institute]] and [[Alan Savory]], link to his TED talk and his books.
*[[Incubation]] - summary of available science and best practices for hatching eggs on small and medium scales - what effect does temperature and humidity have on success rate? How tightly do these conditions need to be held? - advantages and disadvantages to allowing a hen to hatch her own eggs,
*Permaculture guilds - review permaculture material and scientific material to try to tease apart “hype” from potentially useful interactions between species in Permaculture “guilds”. Devise a way to rate the effectiveness of a guild - collect anecdotes and testimonials from the web and other sources about people using guilds to good effect.

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Important grazing species

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