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GRASS MANAGEMENT         

The Lunatic Farmer

A few years ago we turned a 15-acre field into slurry with 500 head during a spring snow melt. On the timothy, we wanted to take half, leave half in order to shepherd it with a lighter pruning and keep it growing rapidly. From a distance, the field looked like it had been plowed. The following year it was solid weeds.

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Civil Eats

Now, White Oak Pastures—a significant player in the regenerative agriculture movement—raises cows on organic pasture, allowing them to carry out their instinctual behaviors in a rotational system. That’s not to say growing food isn’t hard work.

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