Abstract
A total of 240 mixed black yearling steers were used to compare grazing and subsequent finishing performance from pastures with ‘MaxQ’ tall fescue, a wheat-bermudagrass double-crop system, or a wheat-crabgrass double-crop system in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015. Daily gains of steers that grazed MaxQ fescue, wheatbermudagrass, or wheat-crabgrass were similar (P > 0.05) in 2010. The daily gains of steers that grazed wheat-bermudagrass or wheat-crabgrass were greater (P > 0.05) than those that grazed MaxQ fescue in 2011 and 2012. The daily gains of steers that grazed wheat-crabgrass were greater (P > 0.05) than those that grazed wheat-bermudagrass and similar (P > 0.05) to those that grazed MaxQ fescue in 2013. The daily gains of steers that grazed wheat-crabgrass were greater (P > 0.05) than those that grazed wheatbermudagrass or MaxQ fescue in 2014, and daily gains of steers that grazed wheatcrabgrass were greater (P > 0.05) than those that grazed wheat-bermudagrass or MaxQ fescue and daily gain from wheat-bermudagrass was greater (P > 0.05) than those that grazed MaxQ fescue in 2015. Finishing gains were similar (P > 0.05) among forage systems in 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2014. Finishing gains of steers that grazed MaxQ fescue were greater (P < 0.05) than those that grazed wheat-bermudagrass in 2011 and greater (P < 0.05) than those that grazed wheat-bermudagrass or wheat-crabgrass in 2015.
Highlights
MaxQ tall fescue, a wheat-bermudagrass double-crop system, and a wheat-crabgrass double-crop system have been three of the most promising grazing systems evaluated at the Kansas State University Southeast Agricultural Research Center in the past 20 years, but these systems have never been compared directly in the same study
Cattle were weighed every 28 days, and forage availability was measured approximately every 28 days with a disk meter calibrated for wheat, bermudagrass, crabgrass, or tall fescue
Grazing and subsequent finishing performance of steers that grazed MaxQ tall fescue, a wheat-bermudagrass double-crop system, or a wheat-crabgrass double-crop system are presented in Tables 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 for 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016, respectively
Summary
A total of 320 mixed black yearling steers were used to compare grazing and subsequent finishing performance from pastures with ‘MaxQ’ tall fescue, a wheat-bermudagrass double-crop system, or a wheat-crabgrass double-crop system in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017. Gains of steers that grazed MaxQ fescue, wheat-bermudagrass, or wheat-crabgrass were similar (P > 0.05) in 2010, 2016, and 2017. Gains of steers that grazed wheat-bermudagrass or wheat-crabgrass were greater (P > 0.05) than those that grazed MaxQ fescue in 2011 and 2012. Gains of steers that grazed wheat-crabgrass were greater (P > 0.05) than those that grazed wheat-bermudagrass and similar (P > 0.05) to those that grazed MaxQ fescue in 2013. Gains of steers that grazed wheat-crabgrass were greater (P > 0.05) than those that grazed wheat-bermudagrass or Max Q fescue in 2014. Finishing gains of steers that grazed MaxQ fescue were greater (P < 0.05) than those that grazed wheat-bermudagrass in 2011 and greater (P < 0.05) than those that grazed wheat-bermudagrass or wheat-crabgrass in 2015
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