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Setting Up Fences and Water for Dairy Grazing – With a Little Help From Some Grants

In December we introduced you to Jonathan and Maryann Connor, owners of Providence Dairy in Addison, Vermont who are making the move to pasture-based...

NRCS Helps New Iowa Farmer Develop His Grazing System

When Iowa livestock producer Ryan Collins bought his 170-acre farm near Harpers Ferry, he knew from experience with USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)...

Solutions for Watering From Ponds

We all know that there are significant downsides to cattle watering from ponds. When they poop in ponds there's the algae and weed growth...

New Fencing and Water and CRP Grazing – Ideas For Profitable Ranching From the Sand Ranch

How do you go from $20,000 in carry over debt after selling all your calves, to no debt, making a profit and having fun...

Portable Solar Water Pump for Watering Livestock

This video comes to us from the Full Belly Project and shows a mobile solar pump system to take advantage of small streams and...

Healthy Soils Hold Water, But Not Too Much

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

Phosphorus, Your Fields and Pastures, and Water Quality Protection

The results of studies in Vermont can help us keep our water clean while we raise good food for our community.

Getting Paid for Stewardship – Water Quality Trading

You're probably already reaping the benefits of conservation practices on your operation like better soil, cleaner water, and bigger profits.  But what if you...

A Great Grazing Systems Planning Guide

From folks at University of Minnesota Extension, this guide helps you look at your pastures and your stock so you can develop your own grazing management plan or tweak the one you've got.

Using the Sun to Get Your Water – Easy Installation Ideas

It's mid-summer, it's hot, and that sun is bearing down on you.  So why not turn all that energy into a way to keep your stock watered while reducing your work load?  

Setting Up an Intensive Grazing System That Works – Pasture Recovery Periods

Regardless of your irrigation status, you'll find great tips here on improving spring pastures, getting more forage with less nitrogen, adding legumes and preventing and reducing parasite problems.

Livestock Exclusion 2: Following the water

In “Riparian Regulations Threaten Livestock” we describe how new riparian regulations were threatening livestock grazing in Maryland, providing an example from one grazier trying...

Calving, Kidding and Lambing Tips for Success

It's that time of year again! Or maybe it's already over for folks who still calve in February. Either way, here are some tips...

Where are you, where do you want to be, and how can you get there?

In December On Pasture featured two graziers who are making changes to their grazing operations to create more time and better lives for themselves...

Infrastructure Costs on Different Ranches – Wide Open Spaces and Little Bitty Places

As a young man growing up in the narrow green valleys of western Oregon, I was routinely given the following advice: “If you want to...

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