Management

In 2023 and 2024, TomKat Ranch staff recorded the movement of animals in and out of fields to track grazing intensity in each field. Point Blue Conservation Science summarized these data as the total number of days grazed and the number of animal-days per acre (ADA) by season.

Updated: March 7, 2025

Guiding Principle

Manipulate timing, intensity, and duration of grazing events in a way that supports livestock health while also improving ecological functioning on the landscape (as measured by our goals).

Animal Days per Acre (ADA)

Choose a season at bottom left. Click on any of the fields to learn more.

Total grazing days


Glossary

Animal days per acre: Calculated as the sum total of the number of animals present per day divided by the number of acres.

Total grazing days: Calculated as the total number of days animals were present in the field.

About this page

This interactive web page was produced in R using rmarkdown and the packages leaflet and plotly. The code used to produce this web page is available on Github.

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