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Iowa Cow-calf Production - Exploring Different Management Systems

Joe Sellers, Denise Schwab, Kapil Arora, Chris Clark, Grant Dewell, Russ Euken, Patrick Gunn, Katy Lippolis, Dan Loy, Erika Lundy, James Russell, Lee Schulz, Shawn Shouse, Patrick Wall, Aubree Beenken, Jordan Harding, Mitch Holcomb, Samantha Jamison and, Colby Redifer (February, 2019)

Summary

This publication is the culmination of an Iowa Beef Center project that was designed to identify costs, environmental impacts and best practices for Iowa cow-calf operations. The project looked into three types of production systems - traditional grazing, extensive grazing and limited or no grazing - with the goal of developing decision aids and educational tools to assist cow-calf producers across all production systems and improve sustainability of the cow-calf segment in Iowa.