Pasture Management

“Sunn hemp grew as a viable warm-season forage/cover crop in Maine, yielding 4296 kg DM/ha in a normal year but only 1099 kg DM/ha under 2025 drought; drought actually raised the share of nitrogen fixed from the air (52% vs 34%) and boosted crude protein and digestibility. Cut at 60 days for high-quality feed or 90 days for maximum cover crop biomass (though lignin rises and digestibility drops), and choose 'Crescent Sunn' or 'Loei' over 'Red Mini'.”

“Across 648 soil profiles in North Carolina, particulate organic matter — the fraction most responsive to management — made up 35% of total soil organic C in the top 10 cm but only 10% at 30–60 cm, and was lower in sandier soils. Poultry litter application raised root-zone particulate organic C and N by 17%–32%, and pastures 30 years old held 4%–20% more than newer pastures, while deeper, stable (nonparticulate) carbon was set by long-term soil formation rather than management.”

“Fatty acid profiles, meat quality, and sensory attributes of organic versus conventional dairy beef steers.”

“Comparing the Soil Management Assessment Framework to the Haney Soil Health Test Across Managed Agroecosystems.”

“A handbook for restoration of sagebrush steppe ecosystems with emphasis on greater-sage-grouse habitat—Part 3. Site level restoration decisions.”

“Surveying for biotic soil crust lichens of shrub steppe habitats in the Columbia Basin.”

“Sheep grazing as a strategy to manage cover crops in Mediterranean vineyards: short-term effects on soil C, N and greenhouse gas emissions.”

“We review the past, present, and possible future conditions of the northern Gulf of Mexico and provide insight into possible management actions.”

“Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis) invasion in the Northern Great Plains: A story of rapid dominance in an endangered ecosystem.”

“Identify potential soil legacy effects and recovery time delays after land transformation and place those effects in the context of EGS tradeoffs.”

“Land-use change in the Northern Great Plains is altering the landscape in ways that are seemingly less conducive to beekeeping.”

“Impacts of stocking densities on soil biochemical and microbial properties in a mixed-grass prairie ecosystem at two landscape positions.”

“Woody plant encroachment enhances soil infiltration of a semiarid karst savanna.”

“Organic cropping systems enhance soil health indicators in a Mollisol of the US Corn Belt.”

“Cropping system and rotational grazing effects on soil fertility and enzyme activity in an integrated organic crop-livestock system.”

“Woody encroachment is a global driver of grassland loss and management to counteract it represents one of the most expensive conservation practices implemented in grasslands.”

“Incipient woody plant encroachment signals heightened vulnerability for an intact grassland region.”

“Temporal variability drives soil chemical and biological dynamics more than grazing in a northern mixed-grass prairie.”

“Seasonal effects of granivory on broadcast seeding restoration in degraded semiarid grassland.”

“Carbon Sequestration in Degraded Intermountain West Rangelands, United States.”

“Land-use harmonization datasets for annual global carbon budgets.”

“Using Grazing to Manage Herbaceous Structure for a HeterogeneityDependent Bird.”

“A preliminary investigation of the effect of solar panels on sheep grazing behavior on solar farms.”

“Soil health and nutrient dynamics in pasturelands: A decadal study on the effects of alternative grazing management.”