Intensive Grazing on Irrigated Pastures
Even if you're not working with irrigation, this article has some great tips for transitioning to intensive grazing, stockpiling pasture, and considering the downsides. This is the first in a series...
View ArticleSetting Up an Intensive Grazing System That Works – Pasture Recovery Periods
Regardless of your irrigation status, you'll find great tips here on improving spring pastures, getting more forage with less nitrogen, adding legumes and preventing and reducing parasite problems.
View ArticleLegumes and Soil Mycorrhizae
We all appreciate legumes and their marvelous ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen and release it into the soil. But what happens after the legume plant releases this ammonium and nitrate? I blithely...
View ArticlePaddock Grazing Periods – Setting Up an Intensive Grazing System That Works
Dave Scott of ATTRA-NCAT does another great job of outlining how to make intensive grazing work for you in just a few simple steps. Here he covers figuring out grazing periods so you get the most out...
View ArticleIntensive Grazing – Putting it All Together, Or “Calling the Dance”
Dave Scott has been taking us through setting up an intensive grazing system that works, especially if you're working with irrigated pasture. He's already covered recovery periods and grazing periods,...
View ArticleATTRA’s Extended Cow Calf Calculator
Dave Scott, of the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) recently completed a series of articles for On Pasture about Intensive Grazing on Irrigated Pastures. In them he mentions the...
View ArticleLaying Hands on Them – How to Tell When Your Lamb is Finished
You've got the tools right there are the ends of your arms to help you figure out when your lamb is ready for market. Here NCAT's Dave Scott tells you how to use them.
View ArticleThe Lambulator: A Cut-Yield Calculator for the Lamb Direct Marketer
You’ve gone to great effort to raise a nice set of finished lambs and have them processed. Now what? It’s great if you can sell them all as wholes or halves. But maybe you can’t. How do you go about...
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