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The Cheapest Hay Is the Hay You Never Buy

UnderstandingAg

Early spring grazing is another advantage to having a stockpile of forage. When the snow melted off the fields, there was some green growth available amongst the stockpiled forage, and when spring arrived, we observed that the cattle were ready to return to grazing pasture rather than bale grazing.

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Pro Tips for Livestock Health, Care, and Wellness

Farmbrite

Her findings and the o bservations made by hundreds of other farms, ranches, feedlots, and slaughter plants indicate that the single most important factor that affects animal welfare is the attitude of management. Protect against manure entry to your farm from outside vehicles and equipment.

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Bringing Back Local Milk, Ice Cream, and Cheese

Civil Eats

Some regions have expanded their focus to include climate-smart ranching practices, including managed grazing and resilient cropping systems , which can mitigate the environmental and climate impacts of industrial livestock production. Proper rotational grazing relies on pasture as the primary forage, cutting feed costs.

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The Healing Power of Collaboration – Timber Ridge, Nanton, Alberta

RR2CS

By Trina Moyles Glen and Kelly Hall have been managing Timber Ridge Ranch, a 480-acre farmland situated an hour south of Calgary near Stavely, Alberta, for over 40 years. And then in 1985, when we bought the ranch, we were very excited to be able to purchase a piece of property that’s in the headwaters of Nanton Creek and Oxley Creek.

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Inflation Reduction Act Conservation Dollars Are a Vital Bulwark Against Climate Change

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

In central New Mexico, for example, Christy Everett ’s family ranches, Jones Corona Ranch and Jones Mountainair Ranch, have seen not only hotter, more challenging summers, but a shift in the summer monsoons. Such changes leave the system less vulnerable to temperature extremes, droughts, and floods.

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The Fifth National Climate Assessment: Implications for Agriculture

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

However, solutions to livestock methane center on feed supplements and energy capture from liquid manure systems rather than grazing systems. The authors also note ongoing and increasing “disruptions to the ability of subsistence-based peoples to access food through hunting, fishing, and foraging.” the Osage Nation’s community orchard.

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‘An Insane Amount of Water’: What Climate Change Means For California’s Biggest Dairy District

Modern Farmer

As such, his grandfather, who lived through the 1955 deluge, often stressed the proper maintenance of the berms protecting the ranch from the nearby Tule River—a lesson echoed by his father, who faced a similar event in 1983. His 580-acre farm grows enough forage to supply the herd, so “I’m good with where I’m at,” he adds.

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