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The Increasing Importance of Forage

U. S. Department of Agriculture

Abstract

Not so many years ago we animal husbandmen were stressing the importance of forage, and particularly of low-grade roughages in live stock production because our need was more grain and more meat and wool to feed and clotlie the armies fighting in the World War. Now we are again becoming forage-minded for a different reason. With European nations striving to become self-sustaining in food production we find ourselves with more grain, meat and other live stock products than our population and our system of distribution can handle. For relief we have turned again to forage—a less intensive system of production.

Less corn, less wheat and less cotton will, in my judgment, mean more grass. More grass will, in turn, mean more grass-finished beef. And men responsible for beef cattle research, teaching, and extension work must see to it that this grass beef is produced economically