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Healthy Soils Hold Water, But Not Too Much

Here's how to make sure your soils hold enough water, but not too much.

Transferring Farm Assets or Retiring From Farming: Tax Tips When You’re Selling

Farmers and others interested in maintaining the working landscape need to plan carefully in order for farms to be successfully transferred. This is true...

A Green Light for Post-fire Grazing

For folks grazing rangelands in the west, a fire can mean that public land managers will require them to keep their livestock off the range for 2 years. But research that shows that's not necessary for healthy rangelands. Check it out!

How to Get Your First Farm Loan

Here's what lenders are looking for and what you can expect as you go through the process of borrowing money from a bank. It's good information even for those who've gotten loans in the past.

Feeding 9 Billion People Starts with Rescuing Produce

Did you know that if the price of Florida tomatoes drops on a certain day, as much as 120,000 pounds of tomatoes heading from Mexico to the United States might be thrown into landfills? Here's how that's being changed in one border town.

Assess Alfalfa, Winter Cereal and Grass Stands for Reseeding Decisions

The snow has now receded and soils are beginning to warm enough to green up most hay fields and pastures, and it’s time to...

The Grass is Growing! And You Can Help!

Grass is growing. The grass is really growing! I get a little impatient sometimes waiting for spring to get here; then once it is here...

Right Sizing Your Operation

Farming or ranching is not a one size fits all job. Here are some thoughts about making sure you are right sizing your managmeent to fit your resources.

Roots Need Rest to Reach Resources: Managing for Pastures for Year-Long Forage, Part 1

Hey, it's the first in a series about how to plan for season-long forage in your pastures! We're going to talk plants, planning, supplemental pastures, and supplying high quality fall forage. Here we go….

In the Footsteps of a Winter Grazier

Taking a little extra time in pasture when we're moving livestock can tell us a lot about natural processes and even give us a some tips about how water retention and soil health are being affected by our management.

Where Are We Headed?

Victor ponders the changes in the beef industry since the 1930s and '40s and considers where we might be going next. Can increasing our productivity on pasture also give us more time to relax?

Cattle Can Improve Sagebrush Habitat With a Little Training

Many areas in the Western United States are dominated by sagebrush. The increase in sagebrush density over the past century is generally attributed to:...

Dairy Farming Without Grain

In response to increasing demand for grass-fed dairy products from cows fed only forages, some organic milk buyers are now paying a premium for...

Life and Soil Minerals

Since the beginning of agriculture, successful farming has meant the extraction of minerals from soil as plants grow. A relatively small world population and a...

Breeding Matters Part IV: Culling for Fertility

You can breed however you'd like. To be truly successful, breed for fertility, and breed for your farm. Morgan delves deeper into how.

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