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Why has the adoption of rotational grazing declined in parts of the United States?

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O'Hara, J.K., Reyes, J., Knight, L.G., Brown, J.
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2023-10
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Rotational grazing, Small and medium-sized farms, Sustainable grasslands management, adoption behavior, cattle, grassland, grazing, grazing management, sustainability, Midwest, United States
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Rangelands, Volume 45, Number 5 (2023)
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Jeffrey K. O'Hara, Julian Reyes, Lynn G. Knight, and Joel Brown "Why Has the Adoption of Rotational Grazing Declined in Parts of the United States?," Rangelands 45(5), 92-101, (20 October 2023). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rala.2023.06.003
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Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of The Society for Range Management. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/bync-nd/4.0/).-
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• Conservation policies promote sustainable grasslands management practices, like rotational or management-intensive (RMI) grazing, in the United States. • The self-reported adoption of RMI grazing declined in the United States between 2007 and 2017, and few studies have investigated this trend. • We use panel data to estimate county-level fixed effects regressions to assess if changes in the size of cattle operations are influencing this trend. We estimate a regression for the United States, as well as regressions by Climate Hub region. • We find nationally, as well as within six of the eight Climate Hub regions, an increase in cattle operations with <20 head leads to a smaller increase in RMI grazing relative to an increase in cattle operations with 20-199 head. However, this effect is reversed in the Northeast. • Nationally, we find similar effects on RMI grazing among cattle operations with 20-199 head and ≥200 head. Still, in two of the Climate Hub regions (Midwest and Southeast), cattle operations with 20-199 head lead to greater RMI grazing adoption than cattle operations with ≥200 head. Thus, declines in RMI grazing are most strongly associated with declines in small and medium-sized cattle operations. © 2023
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10.1016/j.rala.2023.06.003
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