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Yearly Archives: 2019

Soil Health Principles Part 4 – Keep Live Roots in the Soil

In this, the fourth in our series on soil health principles, Buz Kloot talks about how, through photosynthesis, plants create carbon-based sugars, a sizeable...

Can You Please Manage, Pretty Please?! A Grazing Advocate’s Plea

It finally happened; a scream so loud, it echoed throughout the over-grazed hills and valleys of Central New York. Poised on a grassy knoll...

Making a Go of It – This is How We Do It

There seems to be a real interest of late in the opportunities for young people to get started in livestock agriculture. The question that...

Flashing Night Lights Can Protect Livestock from Predators

In his 2013 TED talk, Richard Turere, a 11-year-old Masai boy from Kenya, talked about how he invented a way to keep lions from...

Looking for A Big Turkey?

When you're picking out your turkey, this is something you should keep in mind. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Production Systems for Pasture-Finished Beef – Part 1

As Greg Halich writes in his introduction to the Producer's Guide to Pasture-Based Beef Finishing, "Bringing animals to a finishing weight on pasture in...

Soil Health Principles Part 3 – Keep the Soil Covered

This is the third in our series on soil health principles as presented by Buz Kloot, film maker and Research Associate Professor at the...

Mushroom Foraging – A Pasture Walk and Community Building Opportunity

  I’ve hosted or participated in pasture walks that feature ice-cream churning, soil health measuring, grassland bird watching, winter grazing techniques, dung beetle counting, stockpiling...

Grasslands May Adjust More Quickly to Warmer Winters

From the University of New Hampshire College of Life Sciences and Agriculture, here's some insight into what happens to carbon uptake by grasslands and...

How to Mob Graze With Chickens

Mob grazing is basically putting lots of animals on a small area and then moving them from place to place so that they get...

The Best Squirrel Feeder

Lots of folks try to keep squirrels out of their bird feeders. But here's another approach. Give them their own feeder and laugh and...

Why Grass Finished Beef Marbling Is Difficult

Thanks to Seth Christensen of Christensen Genetics for helping make this article possible. Brad Johnson, an expert on skeletal and muscle growth in cattle, and...

Soil Health Principles Part 2 – Minimize Disturbance

Since 2013, Buz Kloot, film maker and Research Associate Professor at the Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, has been working...

Soil Health Principles Part 1 – The Nature and Properties of Soils

In the fall of 2013, film maker Robin "Buz" Kloot, teamed up with the Natural Resources Conservation Service on a project to share the...

Don’t Burn Down the Barn or Make Your Stock Sick – What to Do With Wet/Moldy Hay

In many parts of the country, this year's weather was not particularly friendly for putting up hay. With lots of rain throughout the summer,...

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