Bale Grazing: Feed the Cattle, Feed the Pasture
If you didn't have a chance to stockpile forage for winter grazing, here's another way to make your life easier, your animals' lives better, all while improving your pastures.
View ArticleForage Analysis of Stockpiled Pasture at the Grass Whisperer’s Place
Troy is home and healing, and has invited you on this mini-pasture walk of winter-grazing at his place. Here are lots of great pictures of his animals in action, along with the forage results for his...
View ArticleHelping Livestock Through the Cold Blast
This week's record cold in North America means extra work for all of you with livestock. Here are some tips to help your animals survive this cold blast, and future winter storms.
View ArticleWinter Feeding Tips to Get You Through
Help us welcome a new author: Victor Shelton, NRCS State Agronomist and Grazing Specialist in Indiana.
View ArticleYou Can Lease Land for Winter Grazing and Make More Money
At the end of his SARE-funded project looking at the possibility and profitability of winter grazing in the Northeast, farmer Ridge Shinn concluded that a farmer could afford to pay $100 per acre to...
View ArticleMob Grazing in the Winter – A Good Time to Start
We began using MG way back in the early 90′s during the winter with stockpiled fescue on rented farms. Each year we came to trust more and more what we were doing until we eventually sold all of our...
View ArticleGrazing Stockpiled Forage: When Planning Meets Reality
Stockpiling forage and grazing through the winter - great idea, right? But sometimes you don't want to be the first one to try a great, new idea. That's where The Grass Whisperer, Troy Bishopp, comes...
View ArticleStrip Grazing Stockpiled Forages
As we follow Troy Bishopp's progress grazing stockpile this fall and winter, you might have questions about the specifics of setting up paddocks. Steve Freeman has some great answers.
View ArticleStockpile Grazing Progress Report 1
Editors Note: Troy Bishopp custom grazes organic dairy heifers. He is letting us all follow along this fall and winter as they graze stockpiled feed. It’s a chance to see how his plan compares to...
View ArticleStockpile Grazing Progress Report 3 – Grazing Through Snow
Editors Note: Troy Bishopp is sharing his progress this winter as he custom grazes dairy heifers on stockpiled pasture. If you’ve missed the first two articles in the series, here’s the first, and...
View ArticleKicking the Hay Habit – How to Get Started
Hay feeding still ranks as one of the top costs of being in the cow-calf business in the U.S. The good news is we do see more and more livestock producers ‘Kicking the Hay Habit’ with each passing...
View ArticleHow Long Does It Take to Feed 400 Cows in the Winter?
Using a well designed grazing cell & the right portable fence tools, I can generally feed the herd in about 25-30 minutes even with the ground frozen. No expensive machinery, No diesel fuel, No...
View ArticleHow to Manage Pastures When Winter Isn’t Wintry
It's been a pretty mild winter for most of the U.S. and Canada. With that in mind, here are two perspectives on what's up with your pastures, and the management implications.
View ArticleThe Best Advice for a Small Grain Forage Stand After a Balmy Start to Winter?...
Did your small grain forages get away from you during the fall? It’s been a common problem this winter. Snow mold from overgrown winter annual forage is certainly a risk, but we still don’t recommend...
View ArticleWinter Feeding Made Easy For Young Farmers
American economist and professor at the Harvard Business School, Theodore Levitt, said, “Creativity is thinking up new things; innovation is about doing new things”. As a thinker and doer, Organic...
View ArticleOut of Debt and On To Profit – The Sand Ranch Starts Winter Grazing and Stops...
Last week we started a series of articles about Cody and Deanna Sand and how the changes they’ve made since 2011 have gotten them out of debt (think $20,000 in carry over bills after all their calves...
View ArticleTurning Soil-Poor Cropland Into Healthy, Profitable Pasture
We first shared this video from the Capital Resource Conservation District’s “Soil Health Project,” in July of 2015. In it, Russ Wilson talks about the challenges he faced when he bought a former crop...
View ArticleIan Mitchell-Innes Mob Grazing School
Ian Mitchell-Innes has been practicing Holistic Management for 20 years on his ranch in South Africa. He has made mistakes and wishes to share with Ranchers and Farmers how to avoid these costly...
View ArticleFlexibility Key to Grazing Through the Winter
Thanks to the Beef Cattle Research Council of Canada for this article. It includes a lot of examples of how one producer is solving the problem of keeping his herd grazing through the season through...
View ArticleWant More Spring Forage? Leave More Winter Residual
Last fall, I hosted Victor Shelton at my farm. Victor is Indiana’s NRCS Grazing Specialist, a beef farmer, and the author of “Grazing Bites,” and lots of great articles in On Pasture. During our...
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