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Overcoming Our Brush Prejudice

Here's a breakthrough  - Cows can do every bit as well on brush as goats.  Check out this article to see if maybe you can change your mind and start using brush as the great forage it can be.

Diversifying Helps Multiple Generations Make a Living On the Land

This is an example of how a ranch expanded what it does so that the kids could stay and raise their families while making a good living. It might give you some ideas about new ways to look at your own operation.

Managing Multi-Species Grazing

Here's a great overview of how to add different species of grazers to your operation.  Sandy covers the basics of forage, fencing, shelter, handling equipment, and water, with some great tips on inexpensive solutions, and making sure you don't get in over your head. Enjoy!  And if you have some tips of your own, send us a note and we'll add them to the comments section below.

Portable Panels for Inexpensive Livestock Handling

Sandy Miller is one of the most forward thinking people I know.  She's always coming up with ways to do things better, more easily, and to benefit everyone in her community.  Here, she shares her farm hack for using portable panels to create inexpensive handling facilities for her livestock. We bet you have some pretty good farm hacks as well.  How about sharing them with your fellow On Pasture readers in the comments section below?

The Best Cattle Handling Facilities May Not Be Those Designed by Temple Grandin

This ground-breaking series of articles came to us in May of 2014 from The Stockmanship Journal and authors Whit Hibbard and Dr. Lynn Locatelli....

Snowmen Beware!

If you're building snowmen in your yard this season, consider having extra carrots on hand. You never know what might happen!

The Value of Leaving Some Forage in Pasture

"Waste not, Want Not," right?  It's what we learned when we were kids, and we've probably used it to our advantage in lots of...

Managing Culling To Improve Profit

A little adjustment to breeding timing and to what we call animals when we sell them, can put more money in our pockets.

The Dead Toad Frog

The yellow jackets were the target. The rest was collateral damage. It's something to consider when deciding what to do about a problem.

Pasture Snow Angels

Have you checked out what your livestock are doing for fun in the pasture?  

Breeding a Cow Herd to Fit Your Place

You may not choose the same breed as Steve, but the process he used to create a cow herd for his place can be adapted to fit any operation, or species.

World Soil Day

December 5 is World Soil Day. And there are SO MANY WAYS to celebrate!

Stockpile Grazing Progress Report 3 – Grazing Through Snow

Editors Note: Troy Bishopp is sharing his progress this winter as he custom grazes dairy heifers on stockpiled pasture. If you've missed the first two...

Cut Up Your Chickens to Make More Money

Tom and Ruth Neuberger run a free-range poultry operation on their farm in Canistota, South Dakota.  In search of additional income from their operation,...

Management-Intensive Grazing Is A Lifesaver

Without being too dramatic this is a true statement. Management-Intensive Grazing without question is a lifesaver, and in our case it was the answer...

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