Every time an animal, a milk truck or a crop leaves your place you're exporting nutrients. And you're importing them in fertilizers or purchased hay. Here are some tools to look at your export/import balance.
If you've done everything right up to now to raise fat cattle, be sure what you do when you're handling and transporting them doesn't undo all your hard work.
A nine-year study shows that multi-species pastures provide 31% more forage than a two-species mixture. And since the multi-species mix also improves soil health, those pastures are more drought tolerant too.
"Ranching, conservation, ecological restoration, these things are not diametrically opposed. In fact they go very well together. And I think the 10 years we've...
If you have bedstraw on your farm or ranch, lucky you! According to forage analysis done by the Vermont Pasture Management Outreach program, protein...
