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Some Factors in the Management of Beef Cattle Pastures in Louisiana

Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station

Abstract

The experimental pastures are on river bottom (alluvial) land near the Mississippi river, south of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Thirty-six acres of land were seeded to winter oats in the fall of 1937, following corn and soybeans. White Dutch clover was seeded on the oats in February 1938 at the rate of three pounds per acre. Bermuda grass sufficient to make a good sod in 1939 came in without extra seeding. Six pastures of six acres were fenced in the summer of 1938 after oat harvest and grazing was started on March 31, 1939. All fields were grazed alike the first year. An average gain of three hundred and eighty-one pounds gain per acre was made, which was considered high. The cattle used were mainly yearling Hereford heifers, purebreds and grades with a few two-year old steers. As there was an exceptionally heavy stand of clover, grazing was started at the rate of twelve head per lot or two cattle per acre, and the number reduced to six head per lot by August 18.