this strain in the rumen to precondition livestock to
reduce locoweed poisoning.
Management for the control of locoweeds
should consider protecting the native grassland
ecosystems and conserving ecological balance to
reduce locoweed infestation (figure 3). Management
strategies also should include methods to restore
degraded grasslands to support a sustainable
development of animal husbandry. Management to
achieve these goals requires a long treatment cycle.
In one strategy, highly competitive forage plants
were selected and sown in the locoweed-infested
areas to reduce locoweed density and thus reduce
risks of livestock poisoning (Zhao et al. 2008);
however, this strategy has not yet been applied on a
large scale in locoweed-infested areas of China.