Grazing Practices
Competency B3. Demonstrate safe animal handling and management techniques to meet producer, animal, consumer, and environmental needs.
Description
Overgrazing is not sustainable. As such, there are a variety of different practices that agriculturalists can use to graze their animals, like pasture rotation. Animals also have varying grazing behaviors, so it’s important to understand how different animals might impact your land.
Resources
- Agricultural Anaerobic Digesters: Design and Operation
- Repurposing Manure and Making Energy
- Manure Management for Small and Hobby Farms
- Video - Dairy Farmer Makes Power from Poo
Teaching Methods
Brainstorming, Lecture Discussion, Paired or Small Group Discussion, Field Trip, Resource People, Supervised Study, Debate