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According to The National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service (ATTRA) “Rotational grazing is periodically moving livestock to fresh paddocks, to allow pastures to regrow. Rotational grazing requires skillful decisions and close monitoring of their consequences. Modern electric fencing and innovative water-delivery devices are important tools. Feed costs decline and animal health improves when animals harvest their own feed in a well-managed rotational grazing system. Included are lists of resources for further research and other ATTRA publications related to rotational grazing.”

ATTRA Provides a number of publications related to this issue on their website at: http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/rotategr.html

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Choosing a Grazing System
• Making the Change
• Fencing and Water Systems
• Forage Growth
• Managing Forage Growth
• Seasonal Adjustments
• Effects on the Animals
• Information Resources
• Conclusion
• References
• Enclosures
• Grazing Books
• Periodicals with a Grazing Focus
• Web Resources

The Great Lakes Grazing Network is another excellent site with loads of valuable information: www.glgn.org/

Penn State University publishes a basic brocure called ‘4 Steps to rotational Grazing: www.forages.psu.edu/agfacts/agfact43.pdf

Howard Straub of Triple H Farms in St. John’s Michigan has produced an excellent Powerpoint Presentation showing research data on the economic (and other) advantages of converting to grass based dairy systems: www.miffs.org/tools/TripleHFarms.pdf

A free web publication on temporary fencing for rotational grazing is available from The University of Tennessee at Knoxville: www.utextension.utk.edu/publications/spfiles/sp399G.pdf

A free web publication on rotational grazing and pasture setup is available from the Maryland Dept. of Agriculture: www.mda.state.md.us/pdf/rotgraze07.pdf

A really nice publication on rotational grazing with data on costs, pasture layout, water needs, fencing, forage crops, and more is available from Researchers in Kentucky at: http://www.ca.uky.edu/agc/pubs/id/id143/id143.htm

The University of Kentucky Extension service has an extensive article about rotational grazing at : https://www.uky.edu/Ag/AnimalSciences/pubs/id143.pdf

The University of Illinois has information on rotational grazing on their water management site: http://www.thisland.illinois.edu/60ways/60ways_10.html

Mississippi State University Extension has a publication on the potential economic benefits of rotational grazing at: http://www.msucares.com/pubs/publications/p2299.pdf

Agriculture.com has an article on the benefits of rotational grazing at: http://www.agriculture.com/ag/story.jhtml?storyid=/templatedata/ag/story/data/1223739138620.xml

Southwest Farm Press has an article about improved efficiency from rotational grazing at: http://southwestfarmpress.com/news/062806-grazing-rotation/

Case’s Agworld has extensive links to information about rotational grazing and lots of other information on livestock including breeds, toxic plants, scientific articles, government websites, and veterinary medicine: http://www.case-agworld.com/cAw.links.html

The Georgia Department of Agricultural Education has a Powerpoint presentation on rotational grazing at: http://www.aged.ces.uga.edu/browseable_folders/…/Rotational%20Grazing.ppt