Management techniques to improve cattle raising in central, semiarid rangelands of Argentina

GIORGETTI, H.D.; BUSSO, C.A.; MONTENEGRO, O.A.; RODRIGUEZ, G.D.; KUGLER, N.M.

Rangelands

Society for Range Management

Lugar: Denver; Año: 2006 vol. 28 p. 32 - 36

0190-0528

Management practices such as establishing a breeding season, pregnancy detection and rotative grazing are simple and known. Increasing the number of paddocks in the same surface area through use of electric wire is not difficult and it reduces costs.  Within the ability of the average livestock owner, fencing the paddocks using electric wire is a simple task. Rangeland management would imply knowledge of some basic principles of range management by ranchers, but this might be minimized with use of high instantaneous stocking rates. This shortens the stay of grazing animals in each paddock such that regrowth consumption of preferred forage can be highly avoided. It is then possible to develop a production system in the region similar to that employed in the Production Experimental Unit. This would allow sustainable increases of beef production per acre and year in the semiarid rangelands of central Argentina.