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The Influence of Winter Rations Upon Summer Gains on Short Grass

Manhattan, Kansas

Abstract

Previous Work With Blue-Stem Pasture

A tradition has been prevalent in the West and Southwest that steers receiving silage during the winter will not make satisfactory gains on grass the following summer. Last year I reported on the influence of winter rations upon summer gains on blue-stem pasture. That report was based upon the results obtained from carrying a group of steers three winters and three summers following weaning. Silage was the basis of the winter ration fed one group, and dry feed the basis of the other group. It was shown that the gains made by steers of different ages during the summer grazing season on blue-stem grass depended primarily upon the amount of fat they carried on their backs when turned on the grass in the spring, rather than upon the kind of ration fed the previous winter. The steers fed silage during the winter gained as well on blue-stem grass as steers fed dry feed during the winter.