Chelsea Green Pub Co</br></br>Product Description</br></br><p>Grazing management might seem simple: just put livestock in a pasture and let them eat their fill. However as Sarah Flack explains in <em>The Art and Science of Grazing</em> the pasture/livestock relationship is incredibly complex. If a farmer doesnt pay close attention to how the animals are grazing the resulting poorly managed grazing system can be harmful to the health of the livestock pasture plants and soils. Well-managed pastures can instead create healthier animals a diverse and resilient pasture ecosystem and other benefits. Flack delves deeply below the surface of let the cows eat grass demonstrating that grazing management is a sophisticated science that requires mastery of plant and animal physiology animal behavior and ecology. She also shows readers that applying grazing management science on a working farm is an art form that calls on grass farmers to be careful observers excellent planners and record-keepers skillful interpreters of their observations and creative troubleshooters.?<br />  <br />  <em>The Art and Science of Grazing</em> will allow farmers to gain a solid understanding of the key principles of grazing management so they can both design and manage successful grazing systems. The book??s unique approach presents information first from the perspective of pasture plants?? and then from the livestock perspective??helping farmers understand both plant and animal needs before setting up a grazing system.<br />  <br />  This boo