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Yearly Archives: 2015

Can Cattle Control Oxeye Daisy?

Can you reduce Oxeye Daisy with grazing management? This rancher decided to figure out if he could train his cows while out on range. Here he describes his training efforts and the results. If you're working in a large pasture, these tips will help.

Graze Or DIE

Over a year ago, a friend of mine who is interested in health and nutrition gave me an article entitled “Change or die”. Originally...

Understanding Consequences to Change Animal Behavior

When someone asks you for help, do you prefer to be asked nicely and then be rewarded with a "thank you" or "nice job?"...

What is a Grazing Wedge and What Do You Do With It?

With regular pasture inventories and the Grazing Wedge you don't have to guess about how much forage you have coming up in your rotation. Here's how to use this tool to become a more proactive manager.

What is a Pasture Inventory and How Do You Do It?

There are a variety of ways to figure out how much forage you've got. Here Jim Gerrish describes three of them and the one he likes the best.

Looking For High Protein in Your Summer Mix? Consider Brassicas

Turnips and radishes with 24% protein make a great addition to summer grasses. Here's how to graze them once you've got them

Developing a Lease Agreement You Can Relate To

Farm lease agreements can be complex legal documents, but they don’t have to be.  Behind every legal provision there is a meaning, a purpose...

Farmers in Discussion Groups Generate Higher Profits

That's a headline from Teagasc, the agriculture and food development authority in Ireland. Their analysis of the impact of farmers participating in discussion groups...

Managing to Keep Up With the Grass

For many of us this spring, we've had typical weather: unpredictable. Forage growth and quality has really been good for some and with some of the...

Feeding 9 Billion People Starts with Rescuing Produce

Did you know that if the price of Florida tomatoes drops on a certain day, as much as 120,000 pounds of tomatoes heading from Mexico to the United States might be thrown into landfills? Here's how that's being changed in one border town.

What Chicken Should I Raise?

Many pasture-based poultry producers raise Cornish Rocks, the same bird raised in confinement and bred for rapid growth, a double breast, easy cleaning and other traits...

247,000 People Line Up To Watch Cows Head to Pasture

When folks in Denmark wanted to point out the difference between organic milk production and conventional methods, they decided to let the cows themselves...

How to Reduce Stress on the Farm and Ranch

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Why Pigs Fall Apart on Pasture

Editors Note: This piece comes to us from David Fogle of Spring Hill Farms in Newark, Ohio.  David grew up raising hogs and began...

Are You Okay?

Mental illness is scary because it strikes at the very heart of who we think we are. When our bodies fail us, it's a...

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