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Grassland Farming

Director of Research in Grassland Farming, Sperry Rand Corporation, New York

ABSTRACT

The importance of grass in livestock husbandry was recorded during Biblical times. There is also no question that grass played a vital part in the food economics of primitive man during the transition from the hunting stage to the pastoral stage of his development. This transition was repeated time and again during the settlement of other continents. The settlers in our own continent followed the same pattern. They first satisfied their major animal protein needs with game of the forest and plains. This was followed by the growing of cereal grains and the gradual utilization of pasture lands for the livestock imported from across the sea. In the eastern part of our country, which originally was covered by forests, the vegetation consisted of grass, brush, and weeds after the cereal economy had depleted the soil of its natural fertility.

As farmers moved westward, they came to the prairie area with deep fertile soils covered with varieties of native grasses. They had more grass than they could use.