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Why Do We Believe Cows Prefer Grass?

If you've read On Pasture for very long, you know that before I created On Pasture, I was best known for creating a method...

Managing Vegetation in Solar Arrays With Sheep

Last spring we shared a series of stories from the American Solar Grazing Association on the increase in solar developments, and how sheep grazing...

Graziers and Crop Farmers Benefit From Working Together – Part 1

If you're looking over at the remains in your neighbor's crop residue or cover crops and are seeing potential forage, you'll like this two-part...

Grass-Finishing Myths that Reduce Profitability

Note from Kathy: These are just three of the ten grass-finishing myths that will Greg will be covering in the Introductory/Overview session of the...

What Do Graziers Do in August? Stage Forage, Prep Stockpile and Plan for Winter Forage/Feed

August often seems to arrive too early and speeds by way too fast. Mentally to me, August 1st starts the countdown to the first...

Diverse Income from Your Scenic Pastures: Consider Glamping

In the early 2000's, I had the joy of spending a memorable four days with Bill Burrows, a 6th-generation rancher and Holistic Management practitioner...

How to Turn Wooded Sites into Silvopastures (Pastures With Trees!)

Throughout most humid regions of the US, the landscape is dotted with old farm fields and pastures that today grow trees and shrubs.  In...

Are Your Livestock Genetics in Balance With Your Forage?

Selection of production traits that exceed the capacity of the production environment may not increase output, but will increase costs. Now that is a very...

Why I Made the Switch to Stockers – Profit and Flexibility

About three years ago, I decided I would try my hand at raising some purchased stocker calves. I had kept brood cows on several...

Here’s a Great Resource for Learning More About Your Plants

Are you considering planting a new kind of forage in your pasture? Do you have trees or bushes that you're trying to manage and...

Make These Lists to Get Your Year Off to a Good Start

Another year has come and gone and now comes the time for all of the resolutions to be made for the New Year. Folks...

How to Mob Graze With Chickens

Mob grazing is basically putting lots of animals on a small area and then moving them from place to place so that they get...

Can Cattle Help With Seeding?

Readers have asked if cattle can be used for seeding pastures, or if there are examples of others that have done this. This article...

Two Graziers With 65 Years of Experience Put Their Heads Together

Victor is in the house! A nice benefit of having the 2019 Grasstravaganza in Cobleskill, NY is that conference guest and Indiana’s seasoned grazing guy,...

The Inventory Walk

Woody Lane from Lane Livestock Services in Oregon spoke to me in his article, “Let’s Take a Walk," when he wrote, “The pasture is...

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