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Yearly Archives: 2018

Winter Stockpiled Fescue Trumps Hay Every Time – Part 3 – Fescue Tolerant Animals and Grazing

This is Part 3 in Greg's four part series about the trouble with Kentucky 31 Tall Fescue, and how he's learned to love it....

Fox Hunting in the Old Days

Rural life isn't just about raising livestock and working hard. It's also about the things people do for fun to commune with the environment and the people around them. Don shares what that used to mean in Louisiana for men and their dogs.

Scaring the Mailman

I'd be scared too!

When Does a Cow In Labor Need Help?

How do you know when a cow is labor is having trouble? How do you know when to start helping her? Well, research done over...

A Farmer and a Farm Are Saved By Soil Health

Thanks to Ron Nichols of the Natural Resources Conservation Service for this article about a farmer so inspired by an NRCS Soil Health Meeting...

A Cow’s Teeth Tell Her Age, and Can Help With Culling Decisions

In order to maintain condition in a pasture setting without copious amounts of supplemental feed, a cow must have a full set of teeth...

Artisanal Toilet Paper

Maybe we don't want to roll back 150 years of innovation. https://youtu.be/vRlBtabKRFM

Dairies Share Successes With Extending the Grazing Season

This fall we held two pasture walks to explore what strategies two different dairies use to graze late into fall months. These events were...

Conservation Districts Are Here To Help

There have been plenty of times in my life when I've thought "Boy, I wish I had someone to ask about this problem...." We've...

Shrimp-Fishing Horses

For nearly 700 years, the shrimpers of Oostduinkerke, Belgium, have been training draft horses to help them pursue the local catch. Typically weighing more...

Winter Stockpiled Fescue Trumps Hay Every Time – Part 2

Should you get rid of your endophyte-infected tall fescue? Greg shares why we don't like it, and why getting rid of it may be hard on us too.

What If the U.S. Got Rid of All Livestock?

What if we got rid of all livestock? Would that reduce greenhouse gases? And what would we eat instead? Those are some of the questions...

Cattle Calculator Helps You Schedule Reproduction, Track Performance and MORE!

In livestock production, we live with the consequences of yesterdays decisions today, sometimes from choices made months if not years in the past. This...

Talented Swiss Cow

Can your Bessie do this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGQCvs8V7Zw Translating - Kuh Lovely fåhrt Downhill = Cow Lovely rides downhill. 🙂

The 2018 Free Grazing Charts Are Here – Dust Off Your Grazing Plan and Create Personal Resiliency

As winter wanes and the longer day-length activates the neurons that control the body's daily rhythms, a grazier’s mind can wander into a pastoral...

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