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Sustainability Means ‘Freedom to Really Farm How We Should Be Farming’

Food Tank

They grow a variety of crops including corn, soybeans, rye, wheat, sorghum, and peas; pasture-raise pigs for specialty meat company Niman Ranch; and care for chickens, sheep, ducks, geese, alpacas, and numerous cats—in addition to raising two young children and running a farm stay experience. Which is great…I definitely changed.”

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Ranchers Embrace Virtual Fencing for Greener Pastures 

Modern Farmer

Each new boundary drawn by a rancher moves livestock onto a fresh paddock, allowing grazed pastures time to recover as livestock feed in a new location. “We Virtual fencing enables land managers to be precise and adaptive in their livestock grazing activities so native plants thrive in pastures.

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How to actually bring a pasture back from drought

West Texas Livestock

Taking extreme measures and just hoping that things […] The post How to actually bring a pasture back from drought appeared first on West Texas Livestock Growers. With all this difficulty, it can be easy to fall into “survival” mode during this time.

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4 simple ways to get fertilizer costs under control

West Texas Livestock

Fertilizer costs have increased significantly over the last few decades, even more so over the last couple of years. For example, nitrogen fertilizer has doubled in just the last two years. Commercial fertilizer is the […] The post 4 simple ways to get fertilizer costs under control appeared first on West Texas Livestock Growers.

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Save time and money: soil test tips for ranchers

West Texas Livestock

Have you ever wondered if your pasture is working as hard as possible? Think of it as the starting point for improving your pasture’s output. A soil test is like getting a health check-up for your landit reveals what nutrients are in the soil and how much of them are available.

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Pasture Cropping – Profitable Regenerative Agriculture

Farming Secrets

Pasture cropping is an alternative agricultural practice that combines two farming methods: minimum tillage and perennial grass cover. It positively impacts the environment since there is no reliance on inputs such as synthetic fertilizer and herbicides, and the soil quality is improved with almost zero erosion.

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Pasture Cropping: Planting Summer Cover Crops in Cool-Season Perennial Pastures

ATTRA

The nighttime temperatures have been high enough to wake up the cool-season perennials in the pastures. The first question to ask is: do you really need to take on the work of establishing cover crops in pastures? The principal concern with no-tilling cover crops into perennial pasture sod is plant competition.

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