Grazing interval, stocking rate, and pasture production

Abstract Data are presented to show that, under the same grazing management (a 7‐day rotation), increasing stocking rate from 10 ewes/ac. to 15 ewes/ac. reduced pasture dry matter production. At the same high stocking rate (15 ewes/ac.), however, almost 50% more pasture D.M. was produced when a slow grazing rotation (28 days) was employed compared with a fast (7 days) rotation, and the stocking rate depression in pasture production was more than regained.