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Alternative Forages to Extend Your Grazing Season

Last week we looked at managing grazing so you have forage in pasture into the fall and winter months. This week we'll look at...

Start Now to Extend Your Grazing Season This Fall

Fall is only 60 days away. That means it's time to be thinking about how you'll manage your pastures so that you can graze...

The Most Important Work a Grazier Can Do

Article updated 7/19/2024 Today's collection was inspired by Governor Governor Spencer Cox's closing remarks last Friday to the National Governors Association. In it, he pointed...

Grazier Solutions for Record-Breaking Heat

It seems like every July now, we're setting new high temperature records. Back in 2016, CNN posed a theory that "corn sweat" was to...

Knapweed is the New Alfalfa

If one of the many varieties of knapweed has popped up in your pasture, hooray for you! You've now got a very nutritious forage....

Better Soils, Better Grazing, Better Climate (and Toads!!!)

This past Saturday I got to see the impact of improving soil health in our yard: Toads!! Drawn out of the ground by the...

Dealing with the Ups and Downs of Farming and Ranching

In this week's story about what happens when disaster strikes, John Marble reminds us that when problems arise we "simply must be prepared (mentally...

When Disaster Strikes

In January, I wrote about an ice storm that OP author John Marble was dealing with and how, having planned ahead for emergencies like...

The Easiest Way to Move Livestock From One Place to Another

My husband and I spent the Memorial Day Weekend in Oregon with our friend John Marble. We spent three days wandering around the ranch,...

How to Get City Folks to Understand and Support Farmers and Ranchers

It's a common complaint among ag producers: "Those city folk don't understand us and they don't even know where their food comes from!" We...

Federal grazing lands fail their checkup

by Jimmy Tobias, High Country News. May 15, 2024 For additional perspective, read this week's Kathy's Notes. Melissa Shawcroft spent more than 30 years managing 250,000...

It’s Not Easy Being a BLM Range Conservationist

This week, I'm sharing a story from the High country News about how federal rangelands managed by the Bureau of Land Management are not...

Food, Water, Shade, a Check for $559,000, and a Vision Quest

My inspiration for this week's article collection was, "What is it that we all want right now?" If you're a grazier, the answer is...

Vision Quest! A Live Workshop

Join me for a fun afternoon/evening activity On May 30 at 7:00 pm EDT. Our May 14 article collection includes a suggestion from Dallas Mount for...

Doing the Math – Off-farm jobs, Yes or No?

I was recently helping a young friend consider how best to move her business forward. Her question was whether the retail space she was...

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