Modern Farmer

MARCH 27, 2024

Maintaining and building fences is a yearly job on every ranch, costing at least $20,000 per mile. Environmental benefits Regenerative grazing—or closely managing where and for how long animals forage—is a farming practice that can improve soil health and plant diversity. Ranchers think virtual fencing helps them be more efficient.

Pasture 123

Pasture Technology Livestock Cattle 123

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Half the largest herd—which lives in a 2,900-acre reserve with a fence that protects nearby ranches—died mostly due to insufficient forage. A spokeswoman said the Park Service will ultimately consider the effect of fence removal on the ranches and dairies in the new plan—but it has yet to provide that information.

Ranching 112

Ranching Acre Food Farming 112

Caff

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

This month we want to introduce you to Marcia Barinaga of Barinaga Ranch. I enjoy poring over pasture data to plan my grazing rotation, or planning the projects we have undertaken to sequester carbon in the soil and improve our pasture productivity. Photo by: Paige Green New month, new member spotlight!

Ranching 52

Ranching Pasture Production Animal Agriculture 52

Farmbrite

DECEMBER 11, 2023

As the sun sets over the rolling hills and the cattle graze peacefully in the meadows, it's easy to appreciate the timeless beauty of ranching. Sustainable grazing practices help maintain healthy pastures and ecosystems, reduce the environmental impact of ranching, and enhance the overall well-being of the animals in your care.

Pasture 52

Pasture Ranching Cattle Forage 52

Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Pasture, Rangeland, Forage (PRF) insurance is a vital tool that helps protect against weather-related forage shortages, ensuring the sustainability of your operation. PRF insurance offers financial protection when precipitation falls below historical averages, affecting forage availability. What is PRF Insurance?

Livestock 52

Livestock Forage Ranching Pasture 52

West Texas Livestock

OCTOBER 11, 2024

This need is because, during this time, most of your tame pasture forages go into dormancy. Protein supplements are often needed during the fall and winter months. When this happens, things like their protein content will go down. Maintaining an adequate protein level in the diet is vital for your cattle.

Cattle 78

Cattle Forage Pasture Livestock 78

Civil Eats

MARCH 4, 2024

Since taking the helm of the facility’s nutrition and dining services in 2018, he has worked to revamp the cuisine, including sourcing almost half of ingredients from farms and ranches within a 250-mile radius of the Sacramento Valley. Grazing cattle on pasture for the entirety of their lives, on the other hand, is far less productive.

Pasture 116

Pasture Ranching Supply Chain Cattle 116

West Texas Livestock

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Instead of relying on guesswork, soil testing empowers producers to make targeted fertilizer applications, maximizing their resources and improving forage production. Soil fertility and health are the bedrock of forage production.

Yield 77

Yield Forage Fertilizer Livestock 77

RR2CS

DECEMBER 15, 2022

However, this relatively simple feeding system begins to fall apart when you get hit by drought; forage isn’t growing in your pasture and the price of hay goes through the roof. 3:16 – What types of forage should cows eat? 3:49 – What types of forage are bad for cows?

Forage 52

Forage Cattle Pasture Ranching 52

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Surveying the aftermath of the Kula Upcountry Fire—one of three devastating wildfires that raged across Maui last month—Brendan Balthazar noticed a striking pattern emerge across his cattle ranch. It’s all grazed pasture,” he says, spared “because the fuel load was low.” Some areas of grazed pasture on Diamond B Ranch went unburned.

Plantation 109

Plantation Pasture Acre Ranching 109

Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

From pasture to parlor, its organic, butterfat-rich milk travels less than 10 miles, produced by a herd of Jerseys pasture-raised on the misty coast. A few sleek Jersey cows from the Foggy Bottoms Boys pastures. But that hasn’t been the PCC’s focus, Pheasant says. “As

Pasture 125

Pasture Production Marketing Supply Chain 125

AgriLife Today

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Digital agriculture, forage systems, beef cattle genetics featured topics The Texas A&M AgriLife Research Station at Beeville will host a field day Nov. 2 featuring a broad overview of new technology used in beef cattle production systems. The research station is located at 3507 Highway 59 E, Beeville.

Cattle 99

Cattle Forage Technology Production 99

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

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. As she has allowed pastures to rest, she has seen the return of species diversity and a rise in perennial grasses.

Ranching 72

Ranching Greenhouse Crop Pasture 72

Farmbrite

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Cattle ranching is a demanding profession, and as we head into the winter season of 2023, it's essential to be prepared for the challenges that a harsh winter can bring. As the temperatures drop, cattle will need more energy to stay warm, and providing enough high-quality forage and feed is crucial.

Cattle 52

Cattle Livestock Ranching Straw 52

Farmbrite

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Cattle ranching is a demanding profession, it's essential to be prepared for the challenges that a harsh winter can bring. As the temperatures drop, cattle will need more energy to stay warm, and providing enough high-quality forage and feed is crucial. Stockpile hay, silage, and any other supplemental feeds you might need.

Cattle 52

Cattle Livestock Ranching Straw 52

Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Tony Prendergast’s XK Bar Ranch sits slightly south of Crawford, Colorado, near the Smith Fork of the North Fork of the Gunnison River on the southern edge of the agriculturally rich North Fork Valley. He lives in a small, strawbale house, built in the trees next to the main pasture. I’m open-minded about it.” It’s what I believe in.”

Ranching 88

Ranching Livestock Acre Ecology 88

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

Prairie strips are one means of increasing biodiversity and perennial presence in fields Diversification in practice Diversification may mean a variety of changes in a farm or ranch system. Mixed summer forage in the Southeast U.S. That includes agroforestry systems, perennial pasture systems, and perennial grain crops.

Agriculture 98

Agriculture Agriculture Crop Rotation Pasture 98

ATTRA

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

HMI is an adaptive management and decision-making framework that encompasses the social, economic, and environmental aspects of a ranch or farm. Leyla Rios, both of MSU Extension, strives to better understand forage present and soil health results from the implementation of conservation practices through an HMI framework. What is HMI?

Livestock 52

Livestock Rural Development Agriculture Agriculture 52

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

The authors do not discuss the advantages of highly-managed pasture carbon sequestration outweighing the emissions of associated livestock. 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.

Agriculture 105

Agriculture Agriculture Livestock Forage 105

RR2CS

APRIL 18, 2022

Rod and Beth Vergouwen’s agricultural roots in Strathmore stem back to the early 1900s when Beth’s great-grandfather emigrated from Illinois with the vision to farm and ranch in southern Alberta. Today, Rod and family raise Angus cattle and a flock of Katahdin sheep on open native and annual forage pastures.

Ranching 52

Ranching Cattle Pasture Family Farming 52

Farmbrite

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Introduction to Key Metrics When you’re managing a ranch, it's important to track key metrics that tell the story of your herd. The calculation can be done two ways: Using an average of every animal on your ranch, or Using an average of all animals that were born within a certain year (this will only include cows that have calved once).

Cattle 52

Cattle Ranching Acre Livestock 52

Modern Farmer

MARCH 8, 2024

At Eagle Rock Ranch in Jefferson, Colorado, the elk start to gather at dusk. Gottenborg is working to create a habitat on his ranch that sustains the elk population. Gottenborg is working to create a habitat on his ranch that sustains the elk population. Every winter herds of elk come through Eagle Rock Ranch in search of food.

Ranching 90

Ranching Forage Pasture Food 90

Civil Eats

MAY 6, 2024

Strips of trees, bushes, grasses, or flowers around agricultural or pasture fields can house higher numbers of small mammals than cropland. For instance, agriculture can destroy forest habitats that certain bat species, like the endangered Indiana bat or northern long-eared bat , use for roosting and foraging. Runoff from U.S.

Farming 113

Farming Farming Pesticide Agriculture 113

Farmbrite

OCTOBER 8, 2024

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. How we care for our animals makes a large impact on their quality of life.

Livestock 88

Livestock Manure Farming Farming 88

Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

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.

Farming 82

Farming Farming Manure Agriculture 82

RR2CS

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Not to mention how handy that strip of greenery adjacent to a wetland can be when your pasture isn’t growing or recovering the way you need it to. In this episode, we’re joined by Duane Movald of Movald Ranches, to learn more about managing and stewarding riparian areas.

Ranching 52

Ranching Pasture Ruralism Cattle 52

AgriLife Today

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Clinic will focus on beef cattle and cattle health The annual Central Texas Cow-Calf Clinic will be Jan. 11 in Cameron. The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service offices in Milam, Robertson, Bell, Burleson, Falls and Williamson counties will host the event. Registration will begin at 7:30 a.m., and the program will be from 8 a.m.-2.

Cattle 52

Cattle Pasture Forage Ranching 52

Todays Farmer Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Focus on forage earns Cope Grass Farms 2023 Missouri Leopold Award Cope Grass Farms of Truxton, Mo., The Copes raise a variety of livestock including grass-fed, grass-finished beef and lamb, acorn-fed pork and pastured duck and turkey. 17 during the Missouri Governor’s Conference on Agriculture in Osage Beach.

Forage 52

Forage Pasture Acre Farming 52

RR2CS

MARCH 11, 2024

25:06 – What is forage-finished beef? 15:25 – Peter and Craig talk about the regenerative practices they use on the farm. 22:48 – Have Peter and Craig seen benefits from implementing regenerative agriculture? 30:53 – Why raise piedmontese cattle? 36:35 – Peter and Craig talk about testing.

Food 52

Food Fertilizer Forage Ruralism 52

Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It’s late October and Jon Griggs, manager of Maggie Creek Ranch in Elko, Nevada, still has more than a thousand Angus-cross calves left to wean. It’s been a decent year at the 200,000-acre spread, with enough forage for the 2,000 mother cows and their calves. A beaver is released at Maggie Creek Ranch. Bob Boucher with a beaver.

Ranching 122

Ranching Cattle Acre Pasture 122

Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

On a crisp weekend this past fall, 30 state legislators from across the nation descended on TomKat Ranch , an 1,800-acre ranch focused on regenerative agriculture in Pescadero, California, an hour south of San Francisco. Attendees at the TomKat Ranch tour organized by the State Innovation Exchange (SiX).

Agriculture 93

Agriculture Agriculture Food Ranching 93

The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

The US agriculture sector covers 654 million acres of pasture and rangeland for grazing cattle and another 391 million acres to produce corn, soybeans and other field crop monocultures—and all of them pollute one way or another. Let me give you a better idea of what we’re up against.

Food 98

Food Farming Farming Agriculture 98