Proceedings

On a world-wide basis, rangelands supporting extensive goat production enterprises are among the most degraded in terms of plant community composition and site stability. These lands are also unlikely to receive much concerted attention for improved management, especially if such management costs much money. These typically are lands that support cattle production. Thus, a feasible alternative for forestalling further degradationof these lands in through applied grazing management since grazing management plans often require relatively little capital to implement. Data are not available to permit a broadly-inclusive test of the hypothesis that animal production can be increased by mixed grazing schemes employing goats with cattle and (or) sheep