As Temple Grandin notes, “Every time you are working your animals you are training them. You can train them to be easy to handle . . . or you can train them to be difficult.” Here's how to get the results you want.
"Residue" and "Residual" may sound similar, but they provide very different services for your pasture's health. Jim explains the difference with tips for what you should be paying attention to.
There's "Working Horses" and "Working Dogs" and they all got good at their jobs because of the training or "work" that we did with them. Well, "working" with your cattle or other herdable stock can get you the same great results.
Protecting our community from unproven practices is one of the reasons we write each week because we know how it feels when you find out you've been bamboozled.
Asking the right questions can save you time and money. Here we demonstrate how we asked questions about Keyline Plowing and Soil Balancing to decide if those practices work for farmers and ranchers.
Have you noticed that we're running this Low-Stress Livestock Handling series under "Money Matters?" That's because we know that better animal handling saves time and money and makes animals more productive. It also improves the quality of life for us and everyone around us when we're working your stock. We hope that by running this series through the winter, when the grazing season starts up again, we'll be able to practice in pasture what we've learned in print.
You may have heard of compost tea and theories that it can be used to improve pastures. With little research done on its benefits, one group of Indiana farmers decided to do their own tests to see if this treatment was as good as its claims.
After years spent going to conferences and workshops and working with farmers and ranchers all across the country, I noticed two things. First, while...
Sometimes headlines are misleading as they were when we were told last week that Grassfed labeling was being revoked in the U.S. Here's what's really going on.
