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The grazing wedge is a tool for visualizing forage inventory in different pastures.
It visually represents the quality and quantity of forage dry matter available both now and during the next round of grazing, enabling farmers to plan pasture management accordingly. |
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| depiction of how photosynthate (carbohydrate) is utilized in plants |
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| Effect of temperature on regrowth of cool season grasses |
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| they seem to grow fastest at 25 C |
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| depiction of a grazing wedge |
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| grazing wedge is a tool to... |
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| visualize your forage inventory |
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| carbohydrates are primarily used by the plants for... |
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growth and maintenance
This and stored reserves are used for maintenance |
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| plant goes to 2nd lag stage due to... |
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| diverting energy to reproductive growth and such |
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| continuous grazing is bad because... |
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| it compromises the plants |
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| quality goes down when plant goes to... |
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| rising plate meter measures... |
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| plant size vs. effect on rising plate meter |
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| bigger plants have higher resistance and push the plate up |
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| the grazing wedge is between ______ and ______ |
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permanent base growth
target cove line |
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| grazing wedge is the target of... |
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| what you wanna remove from the pasture |
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