Monday, May 12, 2025

The Surprising Link Between Cattle, Cocaine, and the Screwworm’s Comeback

The New World Screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax), a parasitic fly once eradicated from North and Central America through decades of coordinated effort by governments and...

Scientific breakthroughs that change things for graziers

One of the things that has made American agriculture a leader in the world is our commitment to funding the science that improves outcomes...

A Stress Reduction Tool That Makes Sense for Graziers

For many of us, our world is full of problem-solving, logistics, errands, taxes, and responsibilities. In the farming/ranching community, that’s figuring out the next...

Weed-Eating Livestock Means 43% More Forage

Every magazine has its regular spring features, tweaked just a bit for whatever new product or idea is out that year. On Pasture is...

Orchestrating Diversified Livestock

Managing multiple species and the pasture that support them is like a complex symphony with you as the conductor. Here's how to make beautiful music

The Power of One Wire

Dr. Matt Poore also contributed to this article. The tools to improve productivity that we have at our disposal are quite astonishing. Computers that allow...

How Long Does It Take to Feed 400 Cows in the Winter?

Using a well designed grazing cell & the right portable fence tools, I can generally feed the herd in about 25-30 minutes even with...

Make These Lists to Get Your Year Off to a Good Start

Another year has come and gone and now comes the time for all of the resolutions to be made for the New Year. Folks...

It’s Time to Start Thinking About Frost-Seeding Legumes

Frost seeding is one of the least expensive ways to enhance the stand of legumes in your pastures. It is basically the process of...

I Know You Paid A Lot of Money to Manage Weeds, But It Just Doesn’t Work

That's pretty much what the research, and a decade of experience has shown me about using herbicides to control weeds. More about that, plus an alternative that actually works.

Just a Few Fences Can Improve Pasture Health and Increase Stocking Rates

This video comes to us from our friends Downunder.  It shows one sheep producer's experience with using rotational grazing to improve his pastures.  With...

Life and Soil Minerals

Since the beginning of agriculture, successful farming has meant the extraction of minerals from soil as plants grow. A relatively small world population and a...

Placing Cattle – The Art of Getting Cattle to Stay Put Without an Extra Fence

Thanks to Dawn Hnatow for co-authoring this article! Imagine how expedient it would be if we could drive our cattle to a particular place in...

Considering Adding Broilers? Here’s a Tool to Help You Plan

Poultry processing regulations are one of the primary challenges for small farms hoping to add broilers to their farms. To give small farms a...

A Hard Job Made Easy – Dealing With a Cow’s Prolapsed Uterus

It was about nine in the evening when the phone rang. I looked at Sandy, almost wanting to ignore the call. It glanced out...

Guidelines for Culling Cows – and Other Livestock

You can ensure an optimally productive herd with these tips for choosing who should stay and who should go. If you're in a drought situation this summer and want to maintain healthy soils, forage and animals, you'll really want to check this out.

Grazier's Focus of the Month

Win the War On Weeds – Have Your Livestock Eat Your Enemies

We're finishing up our March March on Weeds with this set of articles on some more edible enemies. Here's the rest of the month's articles...

Where are you, where do you want to be, and how can you get there?

In December On Pasture featured two graziers who are making changes to their grazing operations to create more time and better lives for themselves...

Thanksgiving Lessons from the Pilgrims

It's Thanksgiving Week and at On Pasture, we're grateful for the lessons we can take from that first celebration centuries ago, and the people...

The Thinking Grazier

Collaborative Adaptive Rangeland Management, Multipaddock Rotational Grazing, and the Story of the Regrazed Grass Plant

In this month’s The Thinking Grazier, we’re looking at some research that might challenge some of our preconceived notions. I’ve included questions we can...

Paddock Design and Stockmanship – Thinking It Through

Editor's Note: John Marble runs a seasonal grazing operation. That means he doesn't over-winter cattle, and,each spring, he's working with a new batch of...

Leading Instead of Herding – Why and How to Teach Your Livestock to Follow

Last month in The Thinking Grazier, John Marble got us thinking about our relationship with our animals and how behavior (theirs and ours), along...

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