Grazing Strategies for Corn Stover and Their Effects on Soils and Subsequent Yields.

The most expensive element of maintaining a cow herd in the Northern Plains is purchasing or producing winter-feed sources. This serves as a powerful incentive to utilize corn crop residues as a fall grazing strategy. However, there has been little research into how this type of livestock-crop integrated system will affect soil properties post grazing and crop yield during subsequent growing seasons. 
· Our objective was to study the effect of grazing methods (continuous grazing, CG; strip grazing, SG; and ungrazed treatments, Control) on soil physical and chemical properties and subsequent crop yield before and after fall grazing of corn residues for two subsequent years.