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Getting Ready for Green Up

Last month we started talking about planning this year’s grazing season. We started with links to free grazing charts provided by Troy Bishopp and the National Grazing Lands Coalition, along with instructions on how to get started using them. Then, Tom Krawiec pitched in with great tips for increasing forage and extending the grazing season by grazing in the sweet spot. If you haven’t had a chance to download Tom’s free ebook on grazing in the sweet spot, I highly recommend it.

This week, we’re continuing to get ready for the grazing season. Let’s start with two questions we should ask ourselves from time to time: What am I doing, and why am I doing it? Troy breaks down big-picture goals and grazing goals to help you think about your own operation.

Before You Graze, Know Your Goals: What Are You Doing? Why Are You Doing It?

You might also want some local assistance with your planning and prep for this grazing season. Here’s where you can find folks ready to help.

Where to get good grazing advice

Troy has also written a whole set of articles on how to use your grazing charts and put together the information you need to be successful. Check them out here:

So Ya Got a Blank Grazing Chart. Now What?

Setting Goals for Your Blank Grazing Chart

Creating Your Grazing Chart, Mapping Your Pastures

Your Grazing Chart – Figuring Animal Needs, 11/18/2013

Quickly Estimate Pounds of Dry Matter in Pasture

Last but not least the Funny!

Bulls Steal a Truck

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Kathy Vothhttps://onpasture.com
I am the founder, editor and publisher of On Pasture, now retired. My career spanned 40 years of finding creative solutions to problems, and sharing ideas with people that encouraged them to work together and try new things. From figuring out how to teach livestock to eat weeds, to teaching range management to high schoolers, outdoor ed graduation camping trips with fifty 6th graders at a time, building firebreaks with a 130-goat herd, developing the signs and interpretation for the Storm King Fourteen Memorial trail, receiving the Conservation Service Award for my work building the 150-mile mountain bike trail from Grand Junction, Colorado to Moab, Utah...well, the list is long so I'll stop with, I've had a great time and I'm very grateful.

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