The Grazing Systems Program is now a statewide educational effort that teaches management-intensive grazing to livestock producers. This type of grazing management requires large pastures to be divided into small grazing areas, known as paddocks. It requires all livestock to graze a single paddock for a few days, then move to the next paddock. After livestock have rotated through all the paddocks in a system, they return to the first paddock and cycle through the system again.
Fescue Toxicosis is a program that addresses the most devastating syndrome facing Missouri livestock producers. The goal of the program is to help the forage-livestock industry improve weight gain and milk production in beef calf and dairy heifers and reproductive performance of all classes of livestock. The underlying philosophy of the program will be “alkaloid management,” which calls for a series of practices to limit ingestion of toxic alkaloids.