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Yearly Archives: 2017

When Can You Start Grazing A New Planting?

Here's a response from Genevieve at Kings Agriseeds for a reader who asked: "When can you start grazing a new planting? What if it’s...

What Should You Charge for Prescribed Grazing?

Note from Kathy: I get this question a lot from folks who'd like to make money running livestock to manage vegetation. What they're hoping...

Before You Start, Figure Out How Your New Project Could Die

Once something is dead, a post-mortem analysis can tell you why it didn't make it. A Pre-Mortem Analysis can tell you why a project might fail, so you can adjust before you start, and hopefully save your project from a gruesome fate.

Four Teats, Two Teats, No Teats at All – A Story of Three Cows

“Boy, those cows could surely use some more milk.” How often have we all heard that old line? Truth be told, we’ve spent the past...

How to Guide and Turn Cattle When Driving Them

Here's another step in Whit Hibbard's series on good stockmanship using techniques developed by Bud Williams. You can see all the parts in the...

Farming as a Second Career – Secrets From Folks Who Made the Switch

Thanks to Suzy Hodgson of UVM Extension's New Farmer Project for this story! On average, people change careers three times in their lifetimes, and that’s...

Why Do the Big Guys Win?

A recent Ranching For Profit School graduate sent me a link to MSN Careers.  It had a list of the top 10 “dead-end jobs.”...

How Many Problems Do You Have?

Anyone else have this problem?

Greg Judy Talks Fencing, Leasing, Cow-Size and More

What are the best reels, fence posts and wire you can use for your temporary fences? What are some rates you might offer for leasing...

Start Stockpiling Pasture for Fall and Winter Grazing

Tall fescue is great for stockpiling. Here's how much you need to lengthen your grazing season, along with tips on managing grazing now to get the most out of your winter pastures.

Cow Poop Analyzer App Estimates Forage Quality

You can use your iPhone and a pile of poop to figure out your forage quality! With the "Cow Poop Analyzer" app, you take a...

Saving a Chicken Saves Cattle and Ranchers

What do cattle and lesser prairie-chickens have in common? They both love grasslands. But grasslands are in trouble. Thanks to decades of fire suppression, redcedars,...

It’s National Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor’s Porch Day!

Get out your camo and your excess zucchini and celebrate "National Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor's Porch Day!" That's what August 8 is, and...

How to Work Successfully With Non-Farming Landowners

A successful, long-term farm tenure arrangement between farmer and non-farming landowner depends on good communication, and can help you decide whether or not you,...

Does Lack of Affordable Health Insurance Threaten Farm and Ranch Viability?

Worries about health care coverage prevent farmers and ranchers from working full time on their operations, and create barriers for young and beginning farmers...

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