Low-Stress Livestock handling is more than just being kind to your animals and the people working with you. As Tom points out, the money it saves you can be very significant!
We all prefer trusting and being trustworthy, but sometimes things just don't work out without a contract of some sort to clarify expectations. Here are some examples of problems that could have been prevented by having more than a handshake.
When we graze cover-crops we always need to be considering both meeting the livestock needs as well as soil building objectives. The more cover-crop...
For the past few years, Whit Hibbard has been sharing a series of articles on Low-Stress Livestock Handling (LSLH). We've gathered these articles as...
Last week Troy Bishopp described how he met the challenge of grazing with wet weather and late freezing temperatures. (Of course the best prevention...
A team of genetic engineers couldn't have devised a more ecologically lethal and effective invasive weed than Medusahead Rye. Beth Burritt is one of the researchers working on ways to stop it in it's march across the U.S. from west to east. In this series of articles she shares what we need to know about the plant, and about a treatment that a rancher discovered that just may be a solution.
Troy has been sharing how he extends his grazing season every year thanks to charting his management. But this fall Mother Nature threw him a big curve with rain 28 days out of 40 and a killing frost that came a month late. Here's how he made it through.
