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Considering Adding Broilers? Here’s a Tool to Help You Plan

Poultry processing regulations are one of the primary challenges for small farms hoping to add broilers to their farms. To give small farms a...

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...

Grazing for Weed Management

Some years ago, when their ranch was suffering from a western snowberry invasion, the Permans did something many folks have done. They called in...

Grazing Business Instructions for the New Year

As you opened gifts this Christmas, some may have included instruction manuals, often full of ridiculous legal jargon. Those manuals aren't very useful and...

Good News Heading into 2021

As I was wrapping On Pasture up for the winter break, I ran across some bits of good news that might add to the...

Calving Season Timing – Three Producers on Why They Choose Fall, Winter or Summer

Thanks to the Beef Cattle Research Council of Canada for this great article! Just as every farm operates with an independent set of circumstances, and...

The Beginnings of Soil Conservation and the Regenerative Agriculture Movement

There's a saying that "Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it." Usually we think of that in a bad way, as...

Thoughts and Lessons From Decades of Farming

I met Don and Betty Ashford in September of 2014 when I went to Louisiana to talk about how to train cows to eat...

When Your Livestock Graze Weeds You’ll Have 43% More Forage

I've been teaching cows to eat weeds since 2004. Over the years since I first developed the training method, I've trained over 1,000 cattle,...

Keys to Good Grazing From the Slovek Family

Basic grazing management principles are the same, no matter the scale you're working at, and Bill Slovek and his family do an excellent job...

You Never Know How Things Will Work Out – But They Usually Do

These stories from Don Ashford remind us all that life is a winding road, and as the scenery changes, we change with it. It's...

Interpreting Your Soils Test Report

Agricultural soil testing can be used for many purposes, but the primary use is to determine whether or not lime and/or fertilizer is needed,...

How Do You Know If Your Animal Is Sick?

It's not always easy to tell if you have a sick animal in your herd. That's because, as prey animals, they don't want predators...

Farm Data: A Little Can go a Long Way to Making Good Decisions

  We all know that the explosion of big data retention and analysis is affecting our daily lives, but can your farm data help you...

It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Calls a Lawyer

This is a story about the death of the On Pasture Funnies. A few weeks ago, I got a letter from a law firm that...

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