Grain and Grazing Responses to Phosphorus Placement in Wheat Pasture in the Texas Rolling Plains

Project Leader:
Don Robinson,
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Texas Agricultural Experiment Station,
PO Box 1658,
Vernon,
TX,
76385

(940-552-9941)
dl-robinson@tamu.edu

Project Cooperators: Stan Bevers, Ron Gill, Dariusz Malinowski, Bill Pinchak, Todd Baughman, John Sij.

Staff Member: Dr. Mike Stewart mstewart@ppi-far.org

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The majority of wheat acres planted in Texas are grazed to some extent. Deep placement of P fertilizer (6 to 8 inches) in the western part of the state has been shown to increase forage and grain yields of winter wheat over broadcast applications. Research indicates that deep P placement benefits forage yields more consistently than grain yields. Although extensive research has been done for several years on wheat response to deep banded P, no work has been done on stocker cattle response to increased forage production resulting from deep P placement.