Yearly Archives: 2018

You can ensure an optimally productive herd with these tips for choosing who should stay and who should go. If you're in a drought situation this summer and want to maintain healthy soils, forage and animals, you'll really want to check this out.

John Marble plans for drought every year and some years, like this one, he has to implement that plan. Now, he's seeing some real changes in the weed component of his pastures, making him wonder - is he managing for drought or to get rid of weeds?

This is the story of a dairy farmer's transition to pasture. It's an excellent example how long it takes, and the challenges along the way. It's also a great example for all graziers, no matter your livestock, of how helpful it can be to work with an Extension Agent, or someone from a local Natural Resource Conservation Service or Conservation District office. We should all be so lucky to have free help at our fingertips!

Do you have a workshop or event and would like to provide participants with helpful information? Here are free On Pasture handouts! Just click on...

In this 5:00 video two On Pasture authors, Troy Bishopp and John Suscovich, talk about how it is that on December 8, they're standing...

Some days you just need a little inspiration to keep on keeping on. So here's the Hamann family, winners of South Dakota's 2017 Leopold Conservation Award, to take you on a tour of their ranch and how their management has grown the grasslands they love.

Strong, written contracts can prevent some of the Boneheaded Business Blunders I made in my early years of ranching. My previous two articles have...

In honor of the Independence Day, here's some livestock done up right. If you do something like this, we'd love to see your pictures! Apparently,...

We've gotten requests from those in our On Pasture Community who raise sheep to provide them with more articles. So we'll be doing some...

In Part 1 of this series, Dave Pratt of Ranch Management Consultants talked about pasture recovery periods, focusing on what happens when forages are...

In the drought of 2009, Kregg and Diana McKenny's well ran dry. They had to haul water, and ultimately sell all their livestock except...

If there's no water in a pasture, it doesn't matter how much grass it has. Here are examples from your fellow farmers and ranchers...

I'd recommend against it, because we like the manure on the pasture....but if you really must! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6IRVAiP_w4]   And if you've got a kid that just...

Last month On Pasture asked: “What’s the best way to protect your livestock from predators?” and provided information from the Livestock-Predator Hub as food...