Solar Corridor Crop Harvest By Free Range Livestock.

Livestock are an integral part of a diversified farming system. In addition to serving as a source of income for the farmer, livestock can be integrated into grassland and row-cropping systems that are sources of feed for the animals and are simultaneously effective means of processing and distributing organic amendments to soils. While crops are primarily grown for on-farm livestock feed and marketing purposes, management systems can be altered to serve as more efficient sources of grain and fodder for grazing or browsing livestock on the production fields. Livestock including cattle, hogs and sheep have been used in cropping systems that integrate interseeded cover crops and other forage species that provide supplemental forage with grain rations. The potential of using an integrated system represented by the solar corridor cropping system with corn as the primary crop on livestock performance will be described.