Lamb productivity on stockpiled fescue in honeylocust and black walnut silvopastures

Trees in silvopastures can provide forage-livestock systems with multiple goods and services, including shade, shelter, and browse, but the provision of browse has received little exploration in temperate systems. Honeylocust trees ( Gleditsia triacanthos ) produce nutritious pods that could serve a...

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Published in:Agroforestry systems 2019-02, Vol.93 (1), p.113-121
Main Authors: Pent, Gabriel J., Fike, John H.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agriculture
Availability
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Exploration
Feeds
Fodder
Forage
Forestry
Gleditsia triacanthos
Grasses
Grazing
Juglans nigra
Lamb
Life Sciences
Livestock
Livestock grazing
Pasture
Pastures
Productivity
Rotation
Schedonorus arundinaceus
Sheep
Trees
Walnuts
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Summary:Trees in silvopastures can provide forage-livestock systems with multiple goods and services, including shade, shelter, and browse, but the provision of browse has received little exploration in temperate systems. Honeylocust trees ( Gleditsia triacanthos ) produce nutritious pods that could serve as supplemental fodder for livestock grazing stockpiled tall fescue ( Schedonorus arundinaceus ). This study compared lamb performance in honeylocust (cv. Millwood) and black walnut ( Juglans nigra ) silvopastures with productivity on open pastures during a six week winter grazing trial. Treatment pastures were rotationally stocked with three (walnut) or six (honeylocust and open) lambs per experimental unit based on forage availability. Lambs were naïve to pods and did not readily consume the fodder until four weeks into the trial. Forage availability did not differ ( P  = 0.7580) between honeylocust silvopastures and open pastures (mean = 5090 ± 90 kg ha −1 ) but was greater ( P  
ISSN:0167-4366
1572-9680
DOI:10.1007/s10457-018-0264-0