First Step to Raising Cattle, Lamb or Chicken is Growing Grass From small farms to larger farming and cattle operations, improving pastures has become the focus for many farmers Nationwide. Growing healthy lush pasture grass has become more important than ever before. Thus, small farm operations and homesteaders Nationwide have been leaning more towards permaculture […]
Don’t you find yourself saying, “What’s that stupid ole’ cow upto now”, quite often? This means that you should probably read up on some pointers on cattle handling. Cattle, in your farm, aren’t stupid and normally do whatever it is they are ordered to do. They only respond incorrectly when they are managed in the […]
Pasture management and grazing systems vary greatly between regions of North America. No matter when the grazing season begins in your area, there are a few common components in preparing to measure and manage your forage and grazing systems. “You can’t manage what you don’t measure.” This advice once given to me by a Montana […]
This demonstrates the problem with continuous grazing versus rotational grazing. Grasses & herbs need time to recover and be strong. Otherwise, you’ve got dying grasses and growing weeds! http://extension.colostate.edu/docs/pubs/natres/06112.pdf
Pasture planting allows you to bring the right mix of pastures to your grazing system. In this video, the NRCS’s Eddie Martin walks us through the options of which pastures to plant and how, when and where they are best planted.
Utah Cattleman Darrell Yardley attended an NRCS pasture management school and instituted a rotational grazing system on 23 acres that has produced more forage for his cattle.
Here’s a 4:13 video from the Land Stewardship Program’s Bridge to Soil Health Initiative. In it, Kaleb Anderson shows how he uses “sacrifice” pastures planted in cover crops to keep his cattle off their hilly pastures in the spring to prevent erosion and eliminate topsoil loss.Then to counteract the damage done, he lets it heal… via […]
This is a good time of year for reflecting on what went well and what you might like to do differently next year. Though Matt wrote this a few years ago, his lessons learned are ones many of us can benefit from, as is the example of putting something in writing to refer back to… via […]
