In Part 1 of this series, Dave Pratt of Ranch Management Consultants talked about pasture recovery periods, focusing on what happens when forages are...
Last month On Pasture asked: “What’s the best way to protect your livestock from predators?” and provided information from the Livestock-Predator Hub as food...
With six decades of farming experience, Don Ashford has a lot of data to draw on. Here's a lesson he's learned that can help all of us look at our farming operations and decide what we can control and how we want to farm or ranch.
Well - technically it is a 4-letter word, but we shouldn't use it like it is one. Here, Dave Pratt talks about why it is one of the most important words in a grazier's vocabulary if you want to build capacity on your farm or ranch.
Every spring, ranchers face the same difficult challenge—trying to guess how much grass will be available for livestock to graze during the upcoming summer....
Some places are unusually wet and cool this spring. Others are hotter and drier than ever and looking at the possibility of extended drought. So what's a grazier to do? Rancher Gary Price says, “You just don’t know what’s around the next corner, so you have to prepare for the worst....Hope for the best of course, but you know, hope is not a plan.” Here's some help for your plan.
If you farm within the sprawling Chesapeake Bay Watershed or other sensitive watersheds around the country, there is a better than even chance, you’ve...
I recently joined the Regenerative Grazing Group Facebook page. Participants share information and ask questions about what's going on in their pastures and help...
Thanks to Kara Pugsley and the South Dakota Soil Health Coalition for sharing this article with us!
South Dakota farmers are planting something new to...
