When you overgraze your pasture you can hurt the environment, your pocketbook and the animals. All grazing management is the foundation of grassland based animal production since there is a impact on both animal and plant health and productivity. There are many reasons that overgrazing can occur. If you have animals that are on continuous or rotational pasture, having too much livestock on the farm or not controlling their grazing activity.

What happens when you overgraze is the plants become weakened and have reduced root length, the pasture sod weakens and the reduced root length makes the plants more susceptible to death when we have dry weather. When the sod is weakened it allows weed seeds to grow. Continuous grazing reduces forage production and eliminates wildlife cover and food while rotational grazing permits the use of forage when they are at peak prod

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