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Collect More Sunshine to Grow More Grass

ALERT: It's science time again and we're going to show you what you need to know to use your livestock to manage your pasture solar collectors so they're always catching the maximum amount of sunlight.

Honey Locust – King of Stockpiles

Do you know how much forage you have stockpiled for this winter? What would you do with 2,000 extra pounds of high-energy, self-harvested feed per...

How to Graze During the Dormant Season (Summer or Fall)

Whether it’s fair or not, people seem to believe that northwest corner of America is a fairly unique place. Folks like to rave about...

If it’s so great, why don’t we see silvopasture everywhere?

I was at a pasture walk some time ago, when the farmer pointed to the few scraggly trees strewn throughout his paddocks. They were...

Using Trees as Forage

Spring and fall are wonderful times to be a grass farmer. The weather is pleasant, the livestock are fat and happy, and the forages...

On Spaghetti, Silvopasture and New Opportunities

When you think of Italian food, what pictures come to mind? Scrumptious spaghetti. Luscious lasagna. Perfect pizzas. What do they all have in common,...

How to Plant a Tree in Your Pasture

If you missed all the important things that trees can do for you and your livestock, check out last week's article, “Take Your Grazing...

Take Your Grazing Up a Level By Adding Trees to Your Pastures

As someone who spends a lot of time talking with farmers about planting trees, there’s a certain phrase I’ve heard more than I can...

Manuresheds – Moving Manure Back to Fields and Pastures

We've all heard the term "watersheds." We use it to describe a land area that channels rainfall and snowmelt to creeks, streams, and rivers....

Field Bindweed – A Nutritious, Overlooked Forage

It's high in protein - capable of adding 2.2 pounds of gain per day - and spreads 10 to 18 feet a season, AND cows love it. You should too!

Solar Grazing: A New Income Stream for Livestock Producers

Utility-scale solar arrays may cover 3 million acres across the US by 2030, according to the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL). This is causing...

I Couldn’t See the Forest…or the Water, For the Trees

After digging a well and running polyethylene tubing all over the place, my intensive grazing operation was humming right along. Cows never needed to...

Intensive Pasture Management Pays – Everything Old is New Again

This article comes to us from Glen Murray* and the September 1962 issue of the Soil Conservation magazine. This was the monthly publication of...

How to Successfully Go Solar on Your Electric Fencing

Like many of us, Dean Schneider of Bell Rule Genetics, wasn't satisfied with the performance of the typical all-in-one solar charged fencers he'd tried....

Your Pastures Would Make Great Solar Farms

A recent Oregon State University study found that the top three land covers with the greatest solar power producing potential are croplands, grasslands and...

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