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Sunk-Cost, Status Quo Bias, and a Check for $559,000

In his article on how to prepare for drought, Dallas Mount talked about how our attachment to the animals we currently own can be...

Five Principles of Grazing Management

Thanks to Scott Jensen, University of Idaho Extension out of Owyhee County for this great article. He takes concepts that lots of folks talk...

This Year’s Drought – How Much Will it Cost You?

Millions of dollars in bad decisions are made every year as ranches manage through dry-times. Not to mention the damage to pasture heath that...

Drought is Coming For You

I'm a bit worried about what this grazing season has in store for many of us. Let's just start right off by looking at the...

Crop Farmers and Graziers Working Together – Feeding Livestock and Building Soil

A couple weeks ago, Brendon Rockey, a potato farmer, shared how he developed an agreement with a neighbor to graze his cover crops. His...

Dancing Roots – The Secret of How Plants Push Through Compacted Soils

In the past we've written about research that shows plants are better at reducing soil compaction than subsoilers. But how do can they do...

Modern Methods for Forage Improvement

A few weeks ago we introduced Robert E. Williams and his piece in the Journal of Range Management about best grazing management practices. Though...

How Rising Temperatures Affect Plants’ Ability to Survive

Thanks for this article go to Diana Yates, Life Sciences Editor, University of Illinois News Bureau Agricultural scientists who study climate change often focus on...

Managing Risk and Social Pressure

This 3 minute video is part of the NRCS-sponsored series Soil Health How-To. In this series, Dr. Buz Kloot, visits farms, orchard and vineyards...

Livestock Surprises

The thing about raising livestock is you never know exactly what's going to happen, but whatever it is, it's probably going to be messy. My...

How to Hand Raise Goat Kids

I first published this story in November of 2017. It's full of great lessons about caring for young animals and for those faced with...

A Focus on Soil Health Helps Farmer/Grazier Through Weather Extremes

Forecasters are predicting that extreme weather events are going to become more and more common in the future. This article from Lynn Betts and...

Why Do We Do Things the Hard Way?

This weekend I was talking to a friend who has changed her lambing date to coincide with spring grass growth on her Vermont farm....

Ideas for Promoting Grazing as an Ecosystem Service

In this article about how crop growers and livestock producers can cooperate to benefit each other, I lay out the keys to developing a...

Cattle Grazing Cover Crops – How Crop Growers and Graziers Can Work Together

This 1:57 minute video is a good look at how graziers and crop growers can work together for the benefit of each other and...

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