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Monthly Archives: August, 2015

Managing Heat Stress Across Your Farm

Heat stress can be a significant cause of economic loss on the farm during the warmer months of the year. Excessive heat, humidity, drought,...

Watch Those Tan-Lines!

Here's another downside of those personal electronic devices that you might need to warn your kids about.

Shade Is Good For Your Bottom Line

This week we're sharing the first article in a series by Brett Chedzoy about how to go about adding trees to open pastures. As...

Romance vs. Reality Part 2: Hard Lessons Learned in a Grass-fed Beef Marketing Cooperative

Editor’s Note: Last week we shared the first half of this article.  This is part two in series that comes to us from Iowa State University...

Cover Cropping Now For Next Spring

Editors Note:  We've shared quite a few articles on cover crops and how they can help folks raising livestock on pasture. Now, here's an...

What Do You See?

Different people see different things when they look at their pastures. Don Ashford gives examples of what he sees to get you thinking about your own eye sight.

Cage Free Eggs Are Not All They’re Cracked Up to Be

The results of a 3-year study were released last March and they show that the health and well-being for cage-free hens and the people...

My Childhood Farm

I found my farm roots in the bottom of a cardboard box at my Mom and Dad's estate sale. There were the plastic horses, cows, sheep...

Less is Seldom More

I’ve lived in states where people are frugal – a polite word for stingy, greedy, lazy or money grubbing. These folks often thought grazing...

Beefsteak Slicing Diagram

When they're really big, you'll need this.   Or if you've got time on your hands, and you're patient:    

Overgrazing for Pasture Renovation

Overgrazing and high pasture productivity don’t often go hand in hand– unless you’re getting ready to interseed. If done correctly, a simple no-till pasture...

Pulled Pork Farm

This is how it's really made!

Romance vs. Reality Part 1: Hard Lessons Learned in a Grass-fed Beef Marketing Cooperative

Editor’s Note: This two-articles series  comes to us from Iowa State University Extension and Outreach and was written by Annie Wilson, member and former...

Pastured Pigs in the ‘Burbs

My parents live in the suburbs outside of Washington D.C. Their home is in a small development, with houses lining three streets, arranged in...

The Livestock Buffet Line

Editors Note: Jess Jackson says that it seems he's been learning to communicate almost all his life. "Just expressing my thoughts in a way that...

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