428 Platform Speaker: Nutrients and plant secondary compounds in pasturelands and their ecological services.

Grazing-based livestock-production systems are between a rock and a hard place— where they experience increasing societal pressures to reduce environmental impacts in a world that demands increased and sustained productivity. Recent advances in understanding the nutritional ecology of herbivores may contribute to alleviate these seemingly contradictory endeavors. Forages are nutrition centers and pharmacies with vast arrays of primary...