Yearly Archives: 2014

A season of managed grazing can be hard on your fences and changes in vegetation and soil moisture take their toll. Here are some suggestions for figuring out what's wrong and fixing it.

Managing livestock means more than just dealing with the animals in our herds. It also means taking into account the animals that we live amongst. In some cases, grizzlies, and the humans who are there to protect them.

Here's a great forage that you should think about for your pastures, what it can do for you, and how you can manage it best so it can do its job.

Did you miss out on this year's Farmers Markets?  Are you wondering if this is for you and what it takes to get started?...

If Dean Anderson of the USDA ARS Jornada Experimental Range has his way, cows will wear these little "hats" that tell them where to go and we won't have to build fences anymore!

This is a work in progress. But if we all pitch in, it's something that will help all of us who need the benefits of a good co-op.

A tomato and mayonnaise sandwich on store-bought white bread is the finest sandwich known to mankind. This is not up for debate, and the ingredients are not negotiable. Salt and pepper are permissible, but if you try to get schmancier than that, you'll screw it all up, and your sandwich should be taken away from you until you learn to properly appreciate the simple perfection of this combination.

When a scientist says something works, or is better, it's based on what research has demonstrated, or at least what it has demonstrated up to that...

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...

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.

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

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. 

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.

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

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...