Short-Duration Grazing: The Facts in 1999

Abstract

Short-duration grazing (also called rapid-rotation, time- controlled, Savory grazing, holistic resource management) was conceived in Zimbabwe by Allan Savory in the 1960's and later introduced into the United States by Goodloe (1969). When Savory came to the United States in the late 1970's, he made further refinements discussed by Savory (1978), Savory and Parsons (1980), Savory (1983), and Savory (1988). During the 1980's short-duration grazing attracted much attention based on the claims it would accelerate range improvement while at the same time accommodating higher stocking rates. On many ranches it was contended that stocking rates could be doubled or even tripled while at the same time improving both range and livestock productivity.