Nutrition Blocks Can Modifying Grazing Benefits

Nutrition Blocks Can Modifying Grazing Benefits

Today we are continuing our conversation with Dr. Dan Dhuyvetter, Director of Marketing, Research and Development and Nutritions Services at Ridley Block Operations. Blocks provide many flexible options to bring supplemental nutrition to your herd. Dr. Dhuyvetter shares an interesting possible additional benefit to using nutrition blocks in your pastures and rangeland.

Dhuyvetter: "Recent research has indicated that there are opportunities with supplemental feeds that can be strategically located around your pastures to improve the forage utilization. There has actually been patents supplied and secured on the grazing management aspects of furnishing supplements in some of those hard to reach locations of your pastures — pastures that are higher in elevation or just further away from water sources. Where cattle will actually graze around a 600-yard radiant and improve the utilization of that forage by 15 percent in those areas. By doing that you can actually make use of your entire forage resource that you have secured whether it is purchased or leased land. You are able to utilize that forage base at that time by the use of supplemental nutrients."

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