Mission:
Enhance the sustained production of goods and services from rangelands and pastures through integrated beef cattle management strategies. Beef cattle are the primary grazer and account for over 50% of the agricultural income in the Rolling Plains. The Range Animal Nutrition Program is dedicated to elucidating the mechanisms in cattle behavior, nutrition and integrated resource management that effect sustainable cattle, wildlife and renewable resource yield from grazed lands in North Texas.
Goals:
Improve the efficiency of sustainable beef production from range and
pasture lands.
Elucidate the temporal and spatial behavior patterns of cattle in response to
management under grazing.
Quantify the role cattle behavior has on supplemental feed consumption
among animals and seasons of self-fed supplements.
Enhance the efficiency of production from wheat-stocker cattle production
systems in the Southern Plains.
Develop decision aids for cattle managers to better mange the nutritional
status of free grazing cattle.
The Range Animal Nutrition Program in North Texas
is
comprised of four interrelated components:
Beef Cattle Behavior and Landscape Utilization
Dynamics
Beef Cattle Nutrition and Production Under
Grazing
Native Range
Wheat pasture
Improved pastures
Integrated Range Management Systems for North Texas
Decision Support Tools for Cattle Producers
Team Members:
William E. Pinchak, Ph D, Project Leader
Byeng-Ryel Min, Ph D, Assistant Research Scientist
Doug Fulford, BA, Laboratory Supervisor
Alumni Members:
L. Jay Hunt, MS
Douglas Tolleson, MS
Scott Showers, MS
Jan Worrall, BS
Ben Boerner, MS
Heidi Carter, MS
Mary Jo Turpin, MS
Nick Canivel, BS
D. Jeffery Goodwin, MS
Kelli A. Barnett, BS
Nicole Matysek
Noah Worley
Justin
Paul Braden
Graduate Students
Ph.D. Lynn Bern, CSU 1986
Galen Austen, PhD, Texas Tech, Animal Science. December 2000
MS. Dan Erickson, TAMU 1996
Ignacio Galavez, TAMU 1999
Charles Kneuper, Angelo State University, Agriculture. May 2000
Student
Interns
Jennifer Reingh, North Texas State University 1999
Robin Byars, Tarolton State University 1999
Noah Worley, Texas A&M University 2001
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Nicole Matysek, Crowell High School 2001
Collaborators:
R. J. Ansley M. K. Owens R. J. Gill
W. R. Teague J. W. Stuth
J. Sij
C. Scott
S. J. Bevers J. E. Slosser
T. Baughman
F.T. McCollum
A. A. Hopkins
D.P. Malinowski
A. D. Herring L. W. Greene