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Yearly Archives: 2019

Can Cattle Help With Seeding?

Readers have asked if cattle can be used for seeding pastures, or if there are examples of others that have done this. This article...

How Does the Next Generation of Farmers and Ranchers Get Started?

Don shares this piece as an opening to a conversation. It's an important one to have. Please share your thoughts, experiences, ideas and suggestions...

Transferring Skills and Experience to the Next Generation

Please join me in welcoming a new On Pasture sponsor! Wally Olson has been in ranching and the livestock business his whole life, doing everything...

Adjust Your Expectations For More Success – Lessons From a Cat

This is Molly. I’ve written about how she reminds me to leave my desk and take walks so I’ll be healthier, and how she...

Flannel Shirts and Pumpkin Spice Dreams

Here's an ode to the winter fabric of farm and ranch life as a sign of the change of seasons.

Untoward Acceleration – the Greatest Danger to Graziers

We all make grazing management mistakes. The key to improving is to acknowledge what they are, why they happened, and then what we might do differently next time. Here, Troy Bishopp shares a mistake from his grazing past, as an example of these steps to improvement.

Pumpkin Spice Taken Too Far

All of these things actually exist - even though they probably shouldn't.  

New Discovery on the Mechanics of Keeping Carbon in the Soil and What It Means For Your Pastures

Imagine you're a carbon molecule floating in the atmosphere and your mission is to get from there into the soil and stay there for...

What Happens to Pregnancy Rates and Calf Survival With Changes in Calving Season?

A four year study of ranchers in Western Canada indicates that shifting from winter calving to spring calving increases cow pregnancy rates and calf...

Wean Early to Prep Thin Cows for Winter Weather

After weaning and prior to winter can be one of the most economical times to improve the body condition score (BCS) of a spring-calving cow.

Intensive Pasture Management Pays – Everything Old is New Again

This article comes to us from Glen Murray* and the September 1962 issue of the Soil Conservation magazine. This was the monthly publication of...

Our Lands – A Story of the Important Work You’re Doing Every Day

Conservation of our lands and soil is vital to humanity. Yet the benefits of the work farmers and ranchers do every day is often...

Why Selling on Social Media No Longer Works (and What Does)

We introduced Charlotte Smith's new podcast back in June. Today, we want to share one of her latest episodes because it answers many of...

Your Next Pair of Dress Shoes?

I tried to find where you might order them, but had no luck.

Manure Scoring – What Comes Out Tells You What Went In and What to Change

Thanks to Robert Wells and the Noble Research Institute for this article. Winter is just a few pages away on the calendar. Along with the...

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