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Yearly Archives: 2019

It’s Beefsteak Tomato Time of Year

If you've got time on your hands, and you're patient:   P.S. If you do this, send me pictures! 🙂

Comparing Rotational and Continuous Grazing – A Time Lapse Video

Seeing how two pastures function side by side under different management is one good way to consider what kind of management we'd like to...

We’re Stockpiling Now for Winter Grazing at Green Pastures Farm

We have 70 days left until our average killing frost date. That means we're starting to stockpile now to extend our grazing season, allowing...

How Does Fire Affect Soil Microbes?

This article comes to us from Steven Shafer, Ph.D., the former Soil Health Institute interim chief scientific officer and retired soil microbiologist the Noble...

Celebrate “Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor’s Porch” Day on August 8

  Get out your camo and your excess zucchini and celebrate "National Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor's Porch Day!" That's what August 8 is. Instead...

How Important is a Perfect Udder on a Beef Cow?

This article is a summary of the 2019 Nebraska Beef Cattle Report “The Effect of Cow Udder Score on Subsequent Calf Performance in the...

Check Out the Farm Loan Discovery Tool

There's a new online tool to help you find information on U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) loans. It's called the "Farm Loan Discovery Tool"...

The Inventory Walk

Woody Lane from Lane Livestock Services in Oregon spoke to me in his article, “Let’s Take a Walk," when he wrote, “The pasture is...

Does Grazing Crop Residue Compact Soils?

This article comes to us from Will Cushman and the Soil Science Society of America. It goes well with last week's article of tips...

Gathering Cattle – These Techniques Make It Much Easier

Thanks to Dawn Hnatow for co-authoring this piece! A lot of ranchers have trouble gathering their cattle; that is, it takes a lot of riders...

I Am Cow. Hear Me Moo!

Here's my favorite song! Courtesy of the Arrogant Worms out of Kingston, Ontario, Canada. https://youtu.be/JohcbfO0OjA

Lone Star Ticks and the Red Meat Allergy

This article comes to us from Canada's Beef Cattle Research Council and Shaun Dergousoff, PhD, a research scientist at AAFC Lethbridge focused on tick...

How Do Animals Choose What to Eat? Part 1 – Mother Knows Best

Learning about how animals choose what to eat and where to live, and that it doesn't work the way we thought it did, has...

New Forage Available

A few weeks ago we shared the results of a study that provided some insights into the value of legumes as forage. The study...

Questioning Our Grass Fed Success

Back in May, On Pasture author and heretic rancher/philosopher James Mathew Craighead had the gall to ask a bunch of questions, and I mean...

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