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USDA, ARS Dale Bumpers Small Farms Research Center Booneville, AR

USDA, ARS Dale Bumpers Small Farms Research Center Booneville, AR. The mission is to develop technology and scientific principles to enhance profitability and sustainability of small farms. Booneville, Arkansas.

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USDA, ARS Dale Bumpers Small Farms Research Center Booneville, AR

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  1. USDA, ARS Dale Bumpers Small Farms Research Center Booneville, AR The mission is to develop technology and scientific principles to enhance profitability and sustainability of small farms.

  2. Booneville, Arkansas

  3. NP-205 Program: Management of southeastern grazing lands and livestock to optimize small farm sustainability • Develop grazing systems for niche meat production • Develop quality forages that bridge the summer gap • Etc.

  4. Goals Specific to Small Ruminants • Organic approach to H. contortus control in sheep and goats • Use of condensed tannin-rich plants to control H. contortus (sericea lespedeza and others) • Copper oxide for H. contortus control

  5. Multiple use of COWP in hair breed lambs

  6. Use of a Trace Element Bolus in Peri-Parturient Goats

  7. Goals Specific to Small Ruminants • Rotational (mostly bermudagrass/fescue) vs. continuous (bermuda or SL) grazing • Systems approach (combinations of techniques including FAMACHA, COWP, SL, deworming “diets”) • Establishment of browse for goats

  8. Rotational Grazing

  9. Grazing SL and administration of COWP

  10. Gulf Coast Native

  11. Katahdin

  12. St. Croix

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