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Predators and What to Do About Them Part 1

In the decades since I started raising livestock, I've had my share of issues with predators. There was the coyote that ate one of...

Caring for Young Animals in Trouble – Resuscitation and Tube Feeding

While these videos and information focus on care of newborn calves, it's helpful no matter what livestock you're raising. As an example, the old...

Can grazing be a low-input pasture renovation tool?

I've seen questions lately about how to revive old, worn fields. So, from March 2015, here's the results of one woman's research on using...

An Animal’s Early Experience Outside Can Change Its Body Inside

The animals you've got could behave and eat differently and even have different internal adaptations if you give them different experiences when they're young.

Expose Animals to Poor-Quality Foods Early in Life for Life-Long Success

In every animal's life there will come a time when they need to survive on less than the best. If they've tried it out when they're young, they'll thrive anyway.

Grazing as a Low-Input Pasture Renovation Tool

This SARE supported on-farm research project is so full of information and lessons learned that it's worth your while to read no matter what kind of livestock you raise. 

It’s Okay to Change Course

Here's another presentation for Week 2 of On Pasture's Virtual Conference. I learned something three decades ago that has served me well whenever I...

On Pasture Successes and Failures

I’ve been thinking a lot about failure lately, especially my own failures, thanks to the four-part series from Freakonomics, “How to Succeed at Failing.”...

What Winter With Livestock Taught Me

I'm sure we all have a list of lessons learned from caring for livestock through the winter. Here's mine. 1. Insulated Carhartt overalls rock! Kidding in...

Which Kind of Grazing is Right for You?

There are so many different names for different kinds of grazing management that sometimes it gets a little confusing. So, to help you pick...

Steers That Eat Rabbits

Here's a little-known fact: On Pasture exists because of this picture:   If I'd never met Fred Provenza, and if he'd never invited me to audit...

Have You Ever Wished for a Mentor?

Back in the '90s, when I was running my research project on how to use goats to build firebreaks to protect homes and people,...

What in Tar(weed)nation?! Part 2 – The Nature of Your Weedy Enemies and the Nature of Nature

Last week, I wrote about how tarweed showed up on my ranch a few years back, and how the management that had worked so...

Tips From Fellow Graziers For Heading Your Farming/Ranching Career in the Right Direction

May is another Bonus Month and Jenn Colby is back to share more about what she's learned as the host of the podcast Choosing...

Managing for All Five Soil Health Principles

Even if you don't have the same kind of operation the Neuharth's have, I think you'll enjoy their story. Their farm is an example...

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