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Graziers and Crop Farmers Benefit From Working Together – Part 1

If you're looking over at the remains in your neighbor's crop residue or cover crops and are seeing potential forage, you'll like this two-part...

Fenceline Weaning for Calves

Last week we shared a two-stage weaning process that reduces stress and illness and maintains or improves weight gain. Here's another option that also...

Make Sure Your Equipment Doesn’t Turn Into Just a Pile of Steel

“I need you to come right away. The driveline just snapped off the baler” “IT DID WHAT?! Shut it down. I’ll be there in five...

Marketing Cattle and Heifers Strategically

One of the silver linings of living through a pandemic is that everyone and everything has gone online. That means you don't have to...

Stressed Plants Can Pass on “Memories” to Create Hardier Offspring

Penn State researcher Sally Mackenzie didn't really set out to scare soybeans. But that's what she did when she silenced the plants' MSH1 gene....

Grazing Stockpile in the Snow

As we talk about swath grazing, and grazing stockpiled forage, one of the questions that always comes up is "What happens when it snows?" The...

Winter Strip Grazing – Determining Strip Size

We reconfigured our farm’s permanent, hi-tensile fence to better allow the use of portable fencing. Portable fencing allows flexibility, and flexibility allows the management...

Rattan Lal Reinforcing Soil Health Principles For a Healthy Planet

Even if you haven't heard of Dr. Rattan Lal, you've probably been influenced by his work. More than 40 years ago, while doing research...

Silly Signs and Headlines – Part 1

Communicating in writing is not always easy. Here are some examples of folks who may not mean what they wrote.         There's more where these came...

Two-Stage Weaning is Calf, Grazier, and Scientist Approved

Weaning may be the biggest stress that a calf endures in its life. When calves are abruptly separated from their mothers, they bawl, they...

Benefits and How-To’s of Swath Grazing

Even though it's only early August, we're all thinking about what our fall and winter grazing and feeding is going to look like. One...

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,...

It Takes a Village (of Insects) to Raze a Manure Pile

The manure your livestock leave behind in pasture can provide beneficial nutrients. But how do the nutrients get from the pile and into the soil? If you said Dung Beetles, you're only 1.5 to 3% correct.

How to Stockpile Grass Like a 12-Year-Old

If a 12-year-old were to set up a ranch they would probably make it simple, easy, and fun. That’s the kind of ranch I...

Utilizing Summer Annuals in Your Grazing System

Thanks go to Ben Beckman, Nebraska Extension Educator, and University of Nebraska-Lincoln's BeefWatch team for this article.   Whether grazed, harvested for hay, or cut for...

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