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...
Sometimes headlines are misleading as they were when we were told last week that Grassfed labeling was being revoked in the U.S. Here's what's really going on.
In my first article, I introduced stockmanship as an under-appreciated and under-utilized component of operating sustainable livestock operations, and argued that its one essential...
Improved forage crabgrass varieties are not weeds, but high-quality, high-producing forages that fit well from the Mid-Atlantic region through the Southeast. With good fertility...
Frugal innovating is the art of using human ingenuity to create solutions from the resources at hand. Farmers and ranchers are usually born frugal innovators, but we could all use a little inspiration to improve those skills. Here you go!
