The future of livestock production is dependent on adoption of precision livestock management tools that allow for economically efficient and environmentally responsive livestock production while maintaining and/or improving rangeland health, meeting other ecosystem service needs. More precise monitoring sensors that can capture variability in weather, soil water and nutrient cycling, vegetation dynamics, and individual animal grazing behavior can aid in ranch decision making and better linking interactions and potential tradeoffs between livestock production and other ecosystem services. Understanding these systems may provide greater opportunities to enhance management for a greater suite of benefits derived from grazing lands.

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