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Grazing Experiments in North Dakota

North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station

Abstract

In co-operation with the U. S. Department of Agriculture the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station has for the past five years been conducting a range grazing experiment at Mandan, North Dakota, just west of the Missouri river.

The normal grazing season for the state may be said to extend from May 15 to November 1; many cattle are forced to graze much of the remainder of the year. In this experiment the cattle are on a reserve pasture for a week or two in the spring so that all may have a uniform fill before being weighed in. The actual number of days in the season's trial has varied from 140 days in 1919 to 158 days in 1918.

The average gain per day per steer has been a little under two pounds (1.89). That this is not far from the gains reported by other experimenters in other parts of the United States is interesting.