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One of the ways that graziers can extend their season is by working with neighboring crop farmers to graze their cover crops and crop...

While the grasshopper is enjoying the summer, the ant is always getting ready for the winter. Typically graziers and all producers are the ants, working away to make sure livestock and their communities will have food for the whole year. Still, there's no reason that the life of an ant can't be made a little easier and more profitable. This video describes how stockpiling and then strip grazing through the winter can save you time and money while improving your pastures.

If you want to start or expand your farming operation, making contact with a landowner is one of the first steps. Here are some tips about making that all important good first impression.

My dear Mother always said that the older you get, the faster time goes, she was right. I really don’t know what happened to...

Editor’s Note: I just got back from 5 days in the largest 2C hot spot in the Lower 48. Grand Junction, Colorado is in...

Thanks to Kris Miner, South Dakota Grassland Coalition for sending on this reminder! With the traditional bull turnout date for most producers coming in the...

 Forrest Pritchard is a farmer with actual experience raising grass fed beef, and is also a very talented New York Times Best Selling author....

One of the most common problems I've been seeing lately is folks running out of forage for the number of animals they have. The...

I'm a bit worried about what this grazing season has in store for many of us. Let's just start right off by looking at the...

The US Weather Service has issued its drought prediction for the next 90 days and for some of us the news is not good....

I try to keep in touch with our custom grazing clients, maybe call them once a month or so during the winter months. This...

Since we're talking grazing charts and planning this week, here's a critical step: figuring how many animals your land will support. We'll walk through...

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

Thanks to the Beef Cattle Research Council of Canada for this great article! Just as every farm operates with an independent set of circumstances, and...

When a six-month drought hits, you'd think that Greg Judy might be a little down about his winter grazing prospects, and you'd be wrong....