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Yearly Archives: 2019

How Babba Louie Taught Me To Think Creatively About Predators

In the late '90s, as part of my research project on the logistics and effectiveness of using goats to graze firebreaks, I got a...

What Do a Comic Book Villain, a Mountain Lion and a Toddler Have in Common?

They overlap a lot more than you may have thought!  

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

Back in March of 2015, On Pasture published an article about Richard Turere, a 11-year-old Masai boy from Kenya, who invented a way to...

Looking for A Big Turkey?

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

Stresses Affecting Graziers and How to Deal With Them – Kathy’s on a Podcast!

This week, I'm featured in the latest episode of Ag State of Mind. This podcast examines the stresses affecting farmers and ranchers and how...

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...

Get the Fencing and Watering System That’s Right for You

I really appreciate anyone who takes the time to understand grazier's problems and then provides solutions that make sense. That's why I'm really pleased...

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...

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