There's "Working Horses" and "Working Dogs" and they all got good at their jobs because of the training or "work" that we did with them. Well, "working" with your cattle or other herdable stock can get you the same great results.
"Reading" what an animal is saying with it's movements is the best way to know how to tell it what you'd like it to do next. These examples will help you "talk" to your animals.
Protecting our community from unproven practices is one of the reasons we write each week because we know how it feels when you find out you've been bamboozled.
Asking the right questions can save you time and money. Here we demonstrate how we asked questions about Keyline Plowing and Soil Balancing to decide if those practices work for farmers and ranchers.
Have you noticed that we're running this Low-Stress Livestock Handling series under "Money Matters?" That's because we know that better animal handling saves time and money and makes animals more productive. It also improves the quality of life for us and everyone around us when we're working your stock. We hope that by running this series through the winter, when the grazing season starts up again, we'll be able to practice in pasture what we've learned in print.
You may have heard of compost tea and theories that it can be used to improve pastures. With little research done on its benefits, one group of Indiana farmers decided to do their own tests to see if this treatment was as good as its claims.
This story comes to us from the USDA Agriculture Research Service's AgResearch Magazine by ARS's Sandra Avant.
The economic impact of cattle fever ticks, including...
After years spent going to conferences and workshops and working with farmers and ranchers all across the country, I noticed two things. First, while...
