{"id":466388,"date":"2026-10-15T03:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T03:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/466388\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T03:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T03:24:07","slug":"texas-tech-seeks-producers-for-study-about-grazing-on-failed-cotton-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/466388\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech seeks producers for study about grazing on failed cotton fields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Texas Tech University\u2019s Department of Animal &amp; Food Sciences is looking for producers who already plan to graze failed cotton fields to take part in a research study.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The study examines how beef cows use failed cotton, including what they select, what they leave behind, and how the quality of available forage changes as grazing continues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Researchers aim to collect data to help producers make decisions about how many grazing days a field may provide and the quality of that forage over time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">What researchers are measuring<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The study will measure biomass available to grazing cows, what cows select among leaf, boll, lint, seed and stem, nutrient quality over time, grazing days a field may provide, and simple field measurements that could help estimate grazing potential.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">How to participate<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Producers interested in participating can contact Dr. Whitney Crossland at Texas Tech University. Cattle and field management will remain under producer supervision throughout the collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Texas Tech University\u2019s Department of Animal &amp; Food Sciences is looking for producers who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-466388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}