Considering a CSA? Here, Mark shares different CSA options and how they distribute risk among the farmer and the consumer so you can figure out what could work for you.
More instructions for making your own, inexpensive equipment! Keep your kids and lambs warm and your barn safe with Sandy's unpatented warming barrels.
Meg Grzeskiewicz is back with a two part series on genetics and forage for raising great beef. Here's Part I - Animal Genetics and Management. (Meg's own legless cattle will be born this coming June!)
You asked for more farmer profiles and examples of how other producers make things work. So here you go! This is a really great example of how to look at what you're raising in a new way so that you can find and serve new markets. Regardless of what you produce, you can use their example to think of new ways to improve your own success.
Researchers have recently discovered that when animals graze plants containing tannins and sapponins, they eat more endophyte-infected tall fescue. That means that including plants like birdsfoot trefoil and alfalfa in pastures of endophyte-infected tall fescue will make your livestock healthier and more productive.
Sure, you've got all the cold you can handle right now. But when the weather warms, you might be hoping for a place you can store things for your upcoming customers. Forrest shows you how to get going!
Is there a legume that establishes and yields well, persists in pasture, and is cost-effective for the producer? That's the question that Jim Munsch,...
