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Monthly Archives: April, 2018

Everything You Need to Include in a Farm/Ranch Lease Contract – Part 1

Over the last few months, my Boneheaded Beef Business Blunders articles have related how I’ve been burned by ineffective land lease and custom grazing...

Ag Policy is Being Written. Does It Reflect What’s Important to You?

According to the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC), "The farm bill connects the food on our plates, the farmers and ranchers who produce that...

Diversity in Pasture Plants Has Big Effects on Herd and Flock Health

Before I began farming, I was an oceanographer. I used to study tiny, planktonic crustaceans called copepods that feed on microscopic algae, at the...

Creating Resilient Soil With Cover Crops and Integrated Livestock

Thanks to Kara Pugsley, the South Dakota Soil Health Coalition and the Natural Resources Conservation Service for this profile in soil health. If you'd like...

Grazing is a Win-Win for Ranchers, Salamanders, Frogs and the Community

This story was drawn from a piece by Ashley Spratt, a Public Affairs Specialist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the Ventura...

Homemade Eye Protection for Cows

Farmers and ranchers are full of ingenuity when it comes to solving problems with whatever they have lying around.

Grazing Around Streams – More Ways To Do The Right Thing

We can graze around streams and avoid government regulations if we choose to do the right thing. Troy Bishopp is busy collecting examples and sharing them with On Pasture so our community can be a good example to all graziers.

Start Your Farm

New York Times Best Selling Author Forrest Pritchard's latest book "Start Your Farm" will be hitting bookstores soon. Here's what you need to know about the book and how to pre-order your copy.

Learning Hippo Behavior

Here's a good Dad joke for you. 🙂

Moderate Grazing Repairs Soils

Thanks to Dennis O'Brien and researchers at the USDA Agricultural Research Service for their assistance on this article. Decades of plowing throughout the Piedmont region...

Listen to This – A Conversation With Greg Judy and Adam Saunders

"One of the questions people ask me is what's the most important lessons I've learned in farming, and one is invest in livestock, not...

Stock Tank Adventuring – A New Business Opportunity?

Looking at their natural resources in a new way helped this family find a new, money-making enterprise.

Why Red Devon?

We all have reasons for the choosing the breed of livestock we raise. Don explains why Red Devons work for him.

How Do You Do Restoration on Bare Soil With No Water?

Restoration and soil health look a lot different in Tucson, Arizona than in the other places I've lived. Here's a project that I'm working on. I'm sharing it with you because it's interesting, you can learn a little more about me and where I live, and maybe you'll have some ideas to share too.

Grazing Around Streams – Three Examples of Trying to Do the Right Thing

With growing concerns over riparian management and its effect on water quality, farmers and ranchers are facing tightening regulations and restrictions on grazing next...

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