Demonstrating Mob Grazing Impacts in Nebraska Sandhills - What Have We Learned?.

Demonstrating Mob Grazing Impacts in the Northern Great Plains on Grazingland Efficiency, Botanical Composition, Soil Quality, and Ranch Economics is a project funded by the USDA-NRCS Conservation innovation grants. This project involves a team of faculty from South Dakota State University and University of Nebraska-Lincoln that are working on close collaboration with mob grazing practitioners from both states. For the subirrigated meadows and upland range of the Nebraska Sandhills region, the objectives of this demontration were to look at rangeland productivity and utilization, as well as the botanical composition, and soil carbon sequestration and soil nutrients under different grazing strategies including mob-grazing. This presentation discusses the challenges and findings at the Nebraska sites during 2012-2014.