But for a vote that never happened back in 1910, today, farmers in Louisiana might be raising hippos, while giraffes and white rhinoceroses would be roaming the southwest. And Americans would be eating them too!
Allan Savory states in his book "Holistic Management" that stock density is the most under-utilized tool in grazing management implying that most graziers have...
Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different, better result is the definition of insanity, right? That's why, in looking at ways to get started farming and help current producers be more profitable, Meg started thinking outside the box. Here are some non-traditional solutions you'll really like!
"Spring Fever" is the disease many of us get this time of year. Symptoms include wanting to get your livestock out on green grass as quickly as possible and when the disease isn't controlled, we might hit our pastures too soon. Here's some advice that will make sure you keep your forages healthy through Spring.
Joshua Dukart, Executive Director of the North Dakota Grazing Lands Coalition, and Kenneth Miller, rancher and former NDGLC chair, share how their community of ranchers is working together to help everyone be successful.
With billions of living things doing their work in the soil, it's no wonder we don't know how our efforts to improve things might be affecting them. To give us a handle on it, researchers are doing some interesting monitoring and while they don't have answers quite yet, they at least have some information to start with.
Have you ever considered how important it could be to just LINGER in your pastures a little longer? It can help you learn what to do, and give you time with your friends and family too!
Got some chores to do and need something to listen to while you're at it? Here's a great podcast about raising and direct marketing chickens, pigs, sheep and cows, all on leased land!
