Monthly Archives: May, 2014

Here's a look at young farmers trying to get started in grazing with little money but lots of willingness to work. Do you have suggestions that might ease some of their frustrations and get them growing?

Greg Judy's cattle are out and grazing in Missouri.  So here's a quick trip down there to see what he's up to and hear...

Ranchers and The Nature Conservancy working together?  It sounds like a case of odd bedfellows.  But in the decades she's been running the Dugout...

If your winter was a hard one, no matter where you were on the planet, you'll find this information important for making sure your plants are healthy.

Thanks to stockmanship experts and authors Whit Hibbard and Dr. Lynn Locatelli, On Pasture readers are getting a look at ground-breaking analysis of animal behavior, and will likely shake up some old patterns of thinking.

Nitrogen is the most expensive, and most difficult to manage part of the fertilizer equation; too much and you waste money, too little and you don’t get the crop production you need. Here Dan Hudson shares the results of his year-long trial using two different modeling tools so you can choose the one that will work best for you.

Do you think you need a new cattle handling facility? Are you trying to figure out what will work best for you? Here’s an analysis of the Grandin system and how it matches animal behavior in action.

Farmers have always created new tools or repaired old ones using whatever was available. Now, there's a place where you can share your solutions, as well as finding ones you may not have thought of.

As graziers, figuring out how to keep out livestock where we want them to be can be challenging at times.  But it's nothing compared...

Here's what happens

1. Grandin, T. (1989). Behavioral principles of livestock handling. Professional Animal Scientist, 5(2), 1-11. 2. Grandin, T. (1990). Design of loading facilities and holding pens....