AGRO 846/ASCI 824 – Principles of Forage Quality and Evaluation for Grazing Livestock

Instructor(s): Dr. John Guretzky 

Number of Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course provides an in-depth study of the chemical characteristics of forage components as well as the interactions with ruminant physiology and digestion that influence forage feeding value and the laboratory procedures used to evaluate forages for grazing livestock.

Prerequisites: Admission to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Successful completion of AGRO/RNGE 240 and ASCI 320, or equivalents. Successful completion of 3 credit hours of introductory statistics. Permission of the instructor also required.

Registration: This course is offered as part of the Great Plains AG*IDEA consortium. Contact Dan Cotton at dcotton1@unl.edu for a permission code for enrollment into the course (Section 791 in MyRed).

Course Requirements & Materials:

• Technical Requirements: Access to high-speed Internet and email with up-to-date browsers and the ability to view videos (recommended browsers are Firefox, Chrome, and Safari)
• Textbooks: Nutritional Ecology of the Ruminant, 2nd Edition by Peter J. Van Soest is required and can be purchased from the UNL Bookstore or Amazon.com. All course materials are online in Canvas.

This Course is Ideal For… 

• Graduate students interested in the management of grazing livestock systems, ruminant nutrition or forage and range sciences
• Students in the Grasslands Management certificate program
• Government employees interested in range and forage management