Soil Moisture Conditions Under Pastures of Cool-Season and Warm-Season Grasses
Issue Date
1965-03-01Keywords
Cool SeasonSoil Moisture Conditions
warm season
Active Growth
Nebraska Agricultural Experimental Station
water use
great plains
Lincoln
pastures
waterforage yieldlivestock numbersdroughtgrasses
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Conard, E. C., & Youngman, V. E. (1965). Soil moisture conditions under pastures of cool-season and warm-season grasses. Journal of Range Management, 18(2), 74-78.Publisher
Society for Range ManagementJournal
Journal of Range ManagementDOI
10.2307/3895471Additional Links
https://rangelands.org/Abstract
The season of active growth and water use by warm-season grasses is about five months, May through September, compared with seven to eight months for cool-season grasses. There was less water in the soil in midspring each year under cool-season than under warm-season grasses. Consequently, the cool-season pastures suffered from midsummer drought more often than did warm-season pastures.Type
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