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A comparative assessment of four winter feeding programs for spring calving cow-calf ranches in the Harney Basin, Oregon

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Bates, Jonathan D.

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The objective of this thesis is to assess four winter feeding programs of spring-calving brood cows that may improve profitability to ranching operations of the Harney Basin, Oregon. The four feeding strategies include strip grazed rake-bunched hay, supplemented range grazing, strip grazed meadow pasture, and baled hay feeding. These first...

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Masters Thesis

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various sectors of United States agriculture (Melichar, 1984). Between 1972 and 1979-80 farm producers
Understory vegetation response and nitrogen cycling following cutting of western juniper

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Bates, Jonathan D.

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Since the late 1880's western juniper has expanded in range and increased in density in sagebrush-bunchgrass, riparian, and forested plant communities of the Pacific Northwest. Succession to western juniper woodland has been shown to reduce the productivity and diversity of the understory component, result in concentration of soil nutrients beneath...

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Dissertation

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cutting of western juniper AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS Jonathan D. Bates for the degree of Doctor of