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Managing Livestock Forage for Beef Cattle Production on Reclaimed Surface-Mined Land

Last Updated: September 23, 2009

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D.C. Ditsch, C.D. Teutsch, M. Collins, W. Dee Whittier, J. Rockett, C.E. Zipper, and J.T. Johns

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University of Kentucky http://www.uky.edu/Ag/AnimalSciences/pubs

Decades of surface mining in the Central Appalachian region have created extensive acreages of reclaimed land that support an abundance of underutilized forage. Thus, Reclaimed surface-mined land could be managed for beef cattle production to provide increased economic return in this region.

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