Figure 1.

Study timeline, day of trial indicated in parentheses, with yr 1 represented first and yr 2 represented second. Steers were assigned to 1 of 3 treatments 1) grazing corn residue and being supplemented with dried distillers plus solubles at 2.68 kg DM/steer 6 d/wk (RESIDUE), 2) grazing a late summer planted oat-brassica forage mix (CCROP) or 3) being fed a corn silage-based diet in drylot (DRYLOT). Steers assigned to DRYLOT were fed a corn silage-based diet for 54 d in yr 1 and 52 d in yr 2 before being implanted and transitioned to the finishing diet (top bar). Steers assigned to RESIDUE and those assigned CCROP grazed 65 d in yr 1 and 66 d in yr 2 and then were fed a corn silage-based diet for 21 d in yr 1 and 33 d yr 2 before being implanted and transitioned to the finishing diet (bottom bar). The finishing period lasted 160 days for all treatments in both years.