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Questioning Our Grass Fed Success

Back in May, On Pasture author and heretic rancher/philosopher James Mathew Craighead had the gall to ask a bunch of questions, and I mean...

Bear Interrupts Photo Shoot

Fortunately he gets away clean...and then brings his buddies back. https://youtu.be/Psx_ZlEw9vo   Rabbit-Eating Steers Are One of the Reasons On Pasture Exists The other is a Conservation Innovation...

A Step by Step Approach to Building Pasture Productivity and Soil Health

If you're working on change, I think you're going to love this interview of Ronnie Nuckols of Crozier, VA. He talks about how he...

DIY Mineral Feeder

Hello to John, one of our readers in Victoria, Australia! He asked for an article on a mineral feeder design that would be accessible...

Placing Cattle – The Art of Getting Cattle to Stay Put Without an Extra Fence

Thanks to Dawn Hnatow for co-authoring this article! Imagine how expedient it would be if we could drive our cattle to a particular place in...

The Thrill of Soil Sampling!

From what I've read in Facebook groups and heard from folks, soil sampling isn't something anyone wants to do. But, the results from a...

A First Step in Reducing Inputs to Increase Profitability

We talk a lot about reducing inputs so that the farm or ranch can be more profitable. But how do you figure out what...

Best of OP – Great “Grass Farmers” Grow Roots

If you go to enough workshops about grazing, you're bound to see an illustration that shows how biting off the tops of plants impacts their roots,...

Best of OP – Managing Multi-Species Grazing

On old MacDonald’s Farm, there were all types of animals—here a moo, there an oink and over there a cluck, cluck—but managing multiple species...

Best of OP – The Importance of Tail Docking Lambs

Ever had a rotten tooth pulled? I have, and it smarts a bit. But would I rather that tooth was still there, or that...

Top Ten Grazing Management Misconceptions

Sometimes we all suffer from perceptual misconceptions that affect our operations. Resolving them may require a rather steep and abrupt learning curve to achieve...

Really Good Reasons Not to Change – Even When You Should

It's not that we need a paradigm shift. It's that we have some very real things that get in the way. And it's hard to figure out how to overcome these challenges.

How Much Time and Money Should You Spend on That Calf?

It is important that cattle producers know the cost of adding gain to cattle and the marginal value of that gain. If you know...

Forage Sampling For Haying and Grazing and Tips on Bale Size

Forage sampling in a standing pasture allows us to get a feed value estimate of forages that will be fed to livestock. It's also...

Here’s the Silver Bullet

Today's Scoop comes to us courtesy of On Pasture author John Marble and a conversation he and I had this morning about farmers and...

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