I started paying attention to animal behavior, and what it can mean for graziers, about 25 years ago. Unfortunately, this really good research has...

Sometimes just talking to your fellow graziers can answer a lot of questions. With that in mind, here are reader questions answered in the...

On July 23, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Rollins announced a "major trade breakthrough that gives greater access to U.S. beef producers selling to Australia."...

Stockpiling is a practice graziers use to reduce winter feed costs and increase profitability. It's nothing more than setting aside some of your pastures...

Two weeks ago, Beth wrote about results of studies done by her colleagues at Utah State University on using cattle to graze sagebrush to...

We all know that there are significant downsides to cattle watering from ponds. When they poop in ponds there's the algae and weed growth...

When we talk about grazing management, we usually think about how to manage livestock, and we think of forage and the soil below it....

Last week Troy Bishopp shared his worksheet for figuring out how many animals you can run on the pasture you have. Stocking rate isn't...

Forage quality is key to faster growth for our livestock. In addition, the higher forage quality is, the less methane your animals produce, so...

Troy started this piece, Kathy Voth added some, and Jim Gerrish shared his observations. And with all that, we're still not sure we have...

"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen." But what if you're a plant and that's just not possible? It turns...

In Part I, Meg described how breeding for stocky cattle makes sense and dollars. Now she describes the forage part of creating legless cattle and a better bottom line.

We started 2023 with some articles to help you take a look at where you are and where you want to go. While you're...

This month we've been looking at record keeping and it's place in our operations. So I asked John Marble to weigh in and share...

Well....it's not the farts, as many scientists will tell you; it's the burps. But regardless of which end it comes out of, cows and other ruminants do produce methane. What we don't know is precisely how much methane they produce. So next time you run into someone who wants to talk about this, here's a little information you can add to the discussion.

You can use your iPhone and a pile of poop to figure out your forage quality! With the "Cow Poop Analyzer" app, you take a...