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Today, we're headed to a presentation by Troy, the Grass Whisperer, Bishopp to check out how easy it can be to figure our animal needs so we can create a Planned Grazing Chart that works for us.

Here are some of the posts on the Kennedy Ranch Facebook page from Sue Kennedy's work teaching cattle to eat leafy spurge on their...

This is the third of a five-part of posts regarding veal production for small-scale farms and why educated eaters dedicated to local foods and sustainable agriculture should be eating veal as well as beef. Here Sandra covers the care and feeding of calves.

Dave Scott, of the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) recently completed a series of articles for On Pasture about Intensive Grazing on Irrigated Pastures. In them he mentions the Extended Calf Calculator, and here he shows you how to use it.

This is the second of a five-part series on veal production for small-scale farms and why educated eaters dedicated to local foods and sustainable agriculture should be eating veal as well as beef. Here Sandra covers veal-raising facilities and equipment, where to get your calves, and how to feed and transport them.

Financial advisor and television host, Suze Orman said it's impossible to map out a route to your destination if you don't know where you're...

Here's how one farmer/agency staffer perseveres in spreading the gospel of grass.

Here's a tried and true method from Chip Hines that will save you time and money. It's low stress for the cattle AND YOU! (And just because he talks about cattle, doesn't mean the principles won't work for other livestock as well.)

This is the first in a series of posts regarding veal production for small-scale farms and why educated eaters dedicated to local foods and sustainable agriculture should be eating veal more than beef.

Multiflora rose is one of our more beautiful "mistakes." It was originally introduced from Japan as rootstock for ornamental roses. In the 1930s the...

As I was doing research for the article on competition from imported grass-fed beef, I found a very interesting story being told about Uruguayan...

If you don't know what to be this Hallowe'en, here's something you can make with items you have around the farm!

An entrepreneur in Ohio is producing 225 pounds of clean, safe feed per day in a 3-foot by 5-foot space he calls "The Love Shack." See how black soldier fly larvae might be in your livestock's future. And don't miss the Barry White video we included!

Strange as it may seem, cattle producers, particularly dairy farmers, have been trying to reduce cow flatus and eructations (farts and burps) for decades...

A recent report on NPR noted that grass fed beef is becoming more and more popular. In fact, George Seimon, a founder of Organic Valley,...