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Sheep Cross Hanging Bridges

Farmers and ranchers everywhere face challenges when it comes to moving their stock, especially when it comes to crossing water. Shepherds have solved water...

Offset Fencing – An Option for Keeping Wily Animals in Pastures

This is my second summer buying, breeding and flipping yearling heifers in New York. I use two-day moves and high density grazing to get...

Multi-Species Grazing Part 3 – Grass and Soil Management Principles

No matter what kind of stock you're grazing, these management principles apply.

Cover Crop Legumes That Are Great Forage

This study may not have turned out as planned, but it did provide some great information about just how useful some pea and hairy vetch varieties are for providing forage for spring grazing.

Multi-Species Grazing Part 2 – Birthing Season and Grass Management

Tom Krawiec has been handling 2,000 to 3,000 head per year for close to 15 years. His MOBs can include saddle horses, cattle, sheep...

Making Hay While the Sun Shines, Even If You Don’t Want To

All the drought indicators were met, so John's drought management plan kicked in. And then it rained.

Farmers and Ranchers Who Talk With Each Other Are More Profitable

A few years back, the agriculture and food development authority in Ireland analyzed the impact of farmers participating in discussion groups. They learned that...

Making Dreams Come True

There is a line in one of Bruce Springsteen’s songs, “is a dream a lie if it don’t come true?” We all have our...

Multi-species Grazing Management Part 1 – Saddle Horses Are Jerks

First off, let me assure you I do not hate horses. In fact, this article is not really about horses at all. It is...

Birdwell and Clark Ranch – Moving 5,000 Head of Cattle Multiple Times a Day

When Emry Birdwell and Deborah Clark bought their 14,000 acre ranch in north Texas in 2003 it was a monoculture of little blue stem...

Not “No” but “Hell No”

James Matthew Craighead asked this question: "Is grass fed the worst thing that happened to agriculture?" Don Ashford, one of On Pasture's Writers in...

The Horses Tell the Story of the Kentucky Derby

Everyone was running, so I ran. I assumed it was a fire alarm. Also, there was a small man clinging to my back. I don’t know why.

Greg Judy IDs Grasses and Legumes in His Pastures

Folks like to know what I grow in my pastures - and it's what's in a lot of your pastures too. So here's a...

How Do You Graze When Your Pastures Are Saturated?

I got an email from a reader this past week asking just this question. Rain, rain, and more rain had soaked his soils. Not...

Are You Running a Marginal Business?

What starts out as a bar conversation becomes a lesson in what to do if you want to make more money farming or ranching.

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