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United States Department of Agriculture
Natural Resources Conservation Service
9173 W. Barnes Dr., Suite C
Boise, Idaho 83709
For More Information:
Contact: Steve Cote, (208) 527-8557 x 105
Contact: Jody Fagan, 208.685.6978
NEW GRAZING MANAGEMENT BOOK AVAILABLE
Arco, July 14, 2004—A new book, Stockmanship—A Powerful
Tool for Grazing Lands Management, describes an extraordinary way of handling
livestock that improves rangeland and pastureland health.
Steve Cote, district conservationist for the Natural
Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Arco spent years studying low stress
livestock handling and wrote the book based on his experiences. NRCS and the
Butte Soil and Water Conservation District published the book.
“This is the only book of its kind,” Cote says. “I’ve searched and
searched for a book containing this type of comprehensive information and
couldn’t find one, so I decided to write it.”
The book includes color photos and diagrams, and fully
explains hands-on methods that teach:
- How to get cattle to stay where they are put for a day or more, without fences
- How to get stock to leave a location, water and return promptly back
- How to prevent over-grazing
- Techniques for handling large herds through difficult terrain on the range
or pasture
- Doing this and much more -- all the while reducing handling stress and
livestock sickness, and increasing productivity
“The results are impressive,” says Jim Cornwell, NRCS state
range management specialist in Boise. “Ranchers using low stress livestock
handling are seeing improved plant vigor and cover. Their range is in better
condition and their cattle are healthier.”
In the Preface, Cote says, “This remarkable method of
handling cattle is the best and perhaps the only practical solution to solving
one of the most pressing and difficult range management problems…protecting and
enhancing riparian and other critical areas.”
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