Menu
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New media
New media comments
New profile posts
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles and first posts only
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Forums
Cattle Boards
Feedyard Board
2023's Animal versus Feed Breakdown, How am I doing? Suggestions
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Help Support CattleToday:
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Mark Reynolds" data-source="post: 1836343" data-attributes="member: 43196"><p>I've got to chime in here. Unfortunately, it seems most of my colleges do not know what an AUM is. (NRCS employees). It's also a 'term' that ia a lot less frequently used in the eastern US than the West. An AUM (Animal Unit Month) is, by definition the quantity of forage grazed by 1,000 lbs of live animal weight during a month. Grazing animals consume just under 3% of their body weight per day. When you calculate it out, an AUM becomes a standard quantity much the same as 'a ton' is. By this I mean: 1 AUM = 790 lbs (approximately) the way 1 Ton = 2,000 lbs. I have to use this value when calculating forage production values from Web Soil Survey which conveniently (or not so conveniently) recorded forage production by soil type in AUMs for about 2/3 of the soils in South Carolina. It's somewhat inconvenient to do this, but it is way more accurate for the producer than using a state "average" production amount that could be up to 3 tons per acre over or under the production of the field in question based on soil type.</p><p></p><p>I know. TMI for some of you. I imagine there are also some of you that didn't know what an AUM was.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mark Reynolds, post: 1836343, member: 43196"] I've got to chime in here. Unfortunately, it seems most of my colleges do not know what an AUM is. (NRCS employees). It's also a 'term' that ia a lot less frequently used in the eastern US than the West. An AUM (Animal Unit Month) is, by definition the quantity of forage grazed by 1,000 lbs of live animal weight during a month. Grazing animals consume just under 3% of their body weight per day. When you calculate it out, an AUM becomes a standard quantity much the same as 'a ton' is. By this I mean: 1 AUM = 790 lbs (approximately) the way 1 Ton = 2,000 lbs. I have to use this value when calculating forage production values from Web Soil Survey which conveniently (or not so conveniently) recorded forage production by soil type in AUMs for about 2/3 of the soils in South Carolina. It's somewhat inconvenient to do this, but it is way more accurate for the producer than using a state "average" production amount that could be up to 3 tons per acre over or under the production of the field in question based on soil type. I know. TMI for some of you. I imagine there are also some of you that didn't know what an AUM was. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Cattle Boards
Feedyard Board
2023's Animal versus Feed Breakdown, How am I doing? Suggestions
Top