Monthly Archives: March, 2014

April Fools! Les Beaux Freres (The Handsome Brothers) currently perform with the Cirque du Soleil. Here you can see them dancing with towels, and...

You've got the tools right there are the ends of your arms to help you figure out when your lamb is ready for market. Here NCAT's Dave Scott tells you how to use them.

Yes, you can spread your manure over your pastures and create fertile soil. But if you're thinking of diversifying what you produce, perhaps you want to collect a little for your own use, and turn it into vanilla!

Samsung Electronics announced Eco Trees, a smart, eco-friendly air purifier that runs on solar energy, for a richer, sustainable, healthier life. Air Fresh SMART Eco Trees...

Japanese researchers find a new use for excess sewage sludge: they turn it into MEAT! Is this another option for how we might feed the 9 billion people who will inhabit our planet in the future?

Here's a Kickstarter project your On Pasture editors are interested in, so we thought we'd share it with you too.  "Are You Kidding" is...

Those aren't "weeds" you're seeing. That's great alternative forage! So why not take advantage of it this spring. It's even on sale.

Really, it is a good question!

Bobby Prigel smiles a lot. He's a guy  you'd want to sit down and have a drink with while you swap stories. He's fun,...

Rick Machen and Ron Gill of Texas A&M share 5 basic principles of cattle behavior and turn them into ten handling pointers to help you become a better low-stress cattle handler.

Here's where you can post your questions about training livestock to eat weeds.  This is a great place to come if you're just getting...

Skinny cows may look better in bikinis, but in the beef business that's not really how we measure success. Economic losses from thin cows can...

Using nurse cows can be a money saving way to raise and feed dairy calves. Here are some tips for making it work at your place.

In Part I, Meg described how breeding for stocky cattle makes sense and dollars. Now she describes the forage part of creating legless cattle and a better bottom line.

Ron Holter is one of the smartest farmers you could meet. He thinks things through to create the life he wants. Now his dairy cows eat no grain, aren't high producing, and he has time to take a nap just about every day. Here's how he makes a good living in spite of (or because of) all this.