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Managing Heat Stress Across Your Farm

Heat stress can be a significant cause of economic loss on the farm during the warmer months of the year. Excessive heat, humidity, drought,...

Shade Is Good For Your Bottom Line

This week we're sharing the first article in a series by Brett Chedzoy about how to go about adding trees to open pastures. As...

Romance vs. Reality Part 2: Hard Lessons Learned in a Grass-fed Beef Marketing Cooperative

Editor’s Note: Last week we shared the first half of this article.  This is part two in series that comes to us from Iowa State University...

Cover Cropping Now For Next Spring

Editors Note:  We've shared quite a few articles on cover crops and how they can help folks raising livestock on pasture. Now, here's an...

Cage Free Eggs Are Not All They’re Cracked Up to Be

The results of a 3-year study were released last March and they show that the health and well-being for cage-free hens and the people...

My Childhood Farm

I found my farm roots in the bottom of a cardboard box at my Mom and Dad's estate sale. There were the plastic horses, cows, sheep...

Less is Seldom More

I’ve lived in states where people are frugal – a polite word for stingy, greedy, lazy or money grubbing. These folks often thought grazing...

Overgrazing for Pasture Renovation

Overgrazing and high pasture productivity don’t often go hand in hand– unless you’re getting ready to interseed. If done correctly, a simple no-till pasture...

Romance vs. Reality Part 1: Hard Lessons Learned in a Grass-fed Beef Marketing Cooperative

Editor’s Note: This two-articles series  comes to us from Iowa State University Extension and Outreach and was written by Annie Wilson, member and former...

The Livestock Buffet Line

Editors Note: Jess Jackson says that it seems he's been learning to communicate almost all his life. "Just expressing my thoughts in a way that...

Measuring Performance Per Animal vs Per Acre

For the last 50+ years, nearly all of the so-called “experts” in the beef industry have been focused on one thing – increasing individual...

Knap-Time

Troy has some great ideas and experience dealing with pesky knapweed. By the end of the article you might be thinking of it as an excellent forage too!

World’s Best Toaster

What would you do with this toaster if it suddenly appeared at your home or office? Rachel and Kathy thought they might try it...

Making Destocking Decisions During Dry Spells and Drought

Imagine it's the end of June and it hasn't rained in awhile.  Your region is well below the average annual rainfall and it's hard...

How Can I Tell If a Change is Worth Making?

Do you want to know if that fertilizer treatment is working? Or would you like to know if a particular management practice is worth implementing on your whole farm or ranch? You need to do a little on-farm research, and here's booklet that can help you get started.

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