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Monthly Archives: July, 2014

Cowaramarup in Cow Suits

I don't know which is funnier:  the name of this town, Cowaramarup, Australia, or that 1,352 people who live there dressed up in cow...

Rehabilitating Degraded Rangelands With Managed Grazing

This article is from the SARE website and provides great information on how grazing can improve rangelands for the benefit of wildlife, visitors and ranchers alike.

Stockpiling Tall Fescue

With proper grazing management and well-timed fertilizer applications, stockpiling fescue can be a good way to get more forage and keep costs down.

Home Grown Fuel and Feed

Last year, Roger Rainville fueled all his equipment with biodiesel from oilseed crops grown on his farm.  Even more exciting to him than being 100% self-sufficient is that all that fuel only cost $1.71 per gallon. 

Getting That Local Food Into Town

This isn't really a how to. It's a how not. Sometimes we need those too. It helps us think about solutions that will work for us all.

Help Save This Ranching Family

At the end of the month, the National Park Service at Point Reyes National Seashore will close down Drakes Bay Oyster Farm which has...

Dealing With Summer Grazing Stress

Thanks to Willie Gibson for sharing this helpful information! Whether this is year one or twenty-one for your grazing system, this time of year provides...

How to Get Your Chickens to Make the Best Use of Pasture

Changing the time when you feed your birds can increase their foraging, potentially increase weight gain, and reduce labor costs.

Using the Sun to Get Your Water – Easy Installation Ideas

It's mid-summer, it's hot, and that sun is bearing down on you.  So why not turn all that energy into a way to keep your stock watered while reducing your work load?  

Breeding Matters

Like many of us in the business of grass-farming for livestock production, I have been preoccupied by a persistent question: Nature vs. Nurture, Breeding...

I’m really biased

When you read something in the news, or watch a newscast on TV, or hear something from a friend, what you take from it...

3 Secrets of Free-Range Farms

If you're writing an equation to determine whether or not a farmer will succeed, you might include these three things.

Day Range Pastured Poultry – An Alternative to Chicken Tractors

Lots of producers use chicken tractors.  The concept was popularized by Joel Salatin and the structure size and shape has been modified by many...

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