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Non-point pollution control for rangeland wintering: livestock operations (ground cover). Research technical completion report, project A-064-IDA Item Info
![Cow-calf cattle operators in the Rocky Mountain West commonly graze their cattle on the range during spring, summer and fall. They hold their cattle in semi-confinement areas during the winter where they are normally fed hay. The holding area is often the land upon which the hay was grown during the summer. This land is often alongside a stream and considered a potential source of non-point pollution for that stream. This study was established to quantify the amount of pollutant loss from cow-calf winter feeding operations and to examine the possibility that one hay crop on the land may retain more pollutants from the runoff water than another. Three ground cover (hay crop) treatments with two replications were established using an alfalfa and grass mixture. The mixtures were those used by ranchers in Owyhee County, Idaho, the location of the test plots. Grasses used with the alfalfa were brome, fescue and orchard grass. After the plots were established in 1979, cattle were placed on them each winter and removed each spring for the next three years. The plots were irrigated twice each year. Irrigation and runoff flows were monitored and water samples taken for analysis. [...] Submitted to the Office of Water Research and Technology, U.S. Department of the Interior.](https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/iwdl/small/iwdl-198204_sm.jpg)
- Title:
- Non-point pollution control for rangeland wintering: livestock operations (ground cover). Research technical completion report, project A-064-IDA
- Authors:
- Dixon, J. E.; Lingg, A. J.; Naylor, D. V.; Hinman, D. D.; Stephenson, G. R
- Date Created (ISO Standard):
- 1982-03
- Description:
- Cow-calf cattle operators in the Rocky Mountain West commonly graze their cattle on the range during spring, summer and fall. They hold their cattle in semi-confinement areas during the winter where they are normally fed hay. The holding area is often the land upon which the hay was grown during the summer. This land is often alongside a stream and considered a potential source of non-point pollution for that stream. This study was established to quantify the amount of pollutant loss from cow-calf winter feeding operations and to examine the possibility that one hay crop on the land may retain more pollutants from the runoff water than another. Three ground cover (hay crop) treatments with two replications were established using an alfalfa and grass mixture. The mixtures were those used by ranchers in Owyhee County, Idaho, the location of the test plots. Grasses used with the alfalfa were brome, fescue and orchard grass. After the plots were established in 1979, cattle were placed on them each winter and removed each spring for the next three years. The plots were irrigated twice each year. Irrigation and runoff flows were monitored and water samples taken for analysis. [...] Submitted to the Office of Water Research and Technology, U.S. Department of the Interior.
- Subjects:
- Cattle Grazing Hay Cover crops Nonpoint pollution sources Chemical analysis Suspended solids Bacterial analysis Bacteria (Coliform) Streptococcus
- Location:
- Southern Idaho
- Collection:
- Boise Basin
- Series:
- Water for Idaho
- IWRRI number:
- 198204
- Rights:
- Rights to the digital resource are held by the University of Idaho. http://www.uidaho.edu/
- Publisher:
- Idaho Water and Energy Resources Research Institute; University of Idaho
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Idaho
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Cataloger:
- KIT
- Date Digitized:
- 2017-08-22
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Non-point pollution control for rangeland wintering: livestock operations (ground cover). Research technical completion report, project A-064-IDA", Idaho Waters Digital Library, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/iwdl/items/iwdl-198204.html
Rights
- Rights:
- Rights to the digital resource are held by the University of Idaho. http://www.uidaho.edu/