- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
Published on: May 11, 2020
![Two new UC studies break out the costs and returns of producing irrigated pasture. During the irrigation season, beef cattle graze on the pasture. Photo by Dan Macon](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/Green/blogfiles/69891small.jpg)
Two new UC studies break out the costs and returns of producing irrigated pasture. During the irrigation season, beef cattle graze on the pasture. Photo by Dan Macon
Two new studies on the costs and returns of establishing and producing irrigated pasture in the Sierra Nevada Foothills have been released by UC Agriculture and Natural Resources' Agricultural Issues Center. Ranchers in Nevada, Placer and surrounding counties may find the cost estimates useful for planning.
Based on 40 acres of leased ground, the studies focus on establishment by tilling the soil, using conventional cultural practices and re-establishment of pasture using no-till cultural practices. The two separate studies, by Dan Macon, UCCE livestock and natural resources advisor, and Donald Stewart of the Agricultural Issues Center, estimate the cost of establishing or...
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Tags: Agricultural Issues Center (1), cost studies (1), Dan Macon (3), pasture (2), Pasture - Irrigated (1)
Focus Area Tags: Agriculture
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