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30 Years of Experiments Predict Crop Response to Rising Atmospheric Carbon

This research covers implications for the pasture "crops" we raise to feed our livestock.

Fencing so a 12-Year-Old Can Run the Ranch

If you set up the day to day operations of your ranch so a 12-year-old can run things, your level of enjoyment will be...

Helping Animals Get the Most From Your Pastures

In general, the more livestock eat, the more weight they gain or milk they produce. Thus, forage intake is key to animal performance. Agronomists...

A Fall, Post-Drought Pasture Walk at Greg and Jan Judy’s Green Pastures Farm

When a six-month drought hits, you'd think that Greg Judy might be a little down about his winter grazing prospects, and you'd be wrong....

Thanksgiving Lessons From the Pasture

This is Thanksgiving week here in the United States. For our international readers, Thanksgiving is a celebration of the harvest, and a time to...

Conservation Stewardship Program Helps This Grazier Hit His Conservation Goals

Good grazing provides so many ecosystem services, from healthy soil to clean water to important wildlife habitat. Here's a program that can cover costs of implementing practices that improve conservation and pay you for your ongoing efforts.

How Do Animals Choose Where to Graze and Find the Best Forage and Water?

Thirty years of research by Dr. Fred Provenza and his colleagues at Utah State University shows us that what we've always thought about how...

Plant Vigor and Range/Pasture Production

This article comes to us from J.L. Lantow and the February 1945 issue of Soil Conservation. It's a good reminder of how long the...

Relationships With the Land Keep Ranchers Going in Hard Times

This week we're taking another field trip - this time to Colorado where we hear a story that is being told more and more...

Making History in Grazing Management

Some years ago, I spent a week at one of the most important sites in range management: the Great Basin Experimental Station. From 1912...

A Simple Spreadsheet For Figuring Forage Availability, Winter Feed Needs and More

I created this calculator for the OP community way back in 2013. The calculator is really an Xcel spreadsheet. You plug numbers into the...

How Much Should I Charge/Pay for Pasture Rental?

Good question! And one I've been asked quite often. One good place to start is at the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service. NASS is the...

Are You Really Prepared to Harvest a Market Animal at Home?

Thanks to University of Nebraska-Lincoln's BeefWatch and Brianna Buseman, Youth Meat Nebraska Extension Educator and Carol Schwarz, Nebraska Extension Educator for this helpful article!   Many...

How to Figure Pasture Lease Rates

The most difficult part of pasture leasing may be figuring out a rate that works for both parties. We can't guarantee this will make...

Swath Grazing – Creating the Swaths that Cows Prefer

Meet Taylor Grafton, Ranch Manager for the Bar K Ranch in Prince George, British Columbia, Canada. In this 8:02 video, he gives us the...

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