UnderstandingAg
DECEMBER 31, 2024
The Cheapest Hay Is the Hay You Never Buy *Additional management considerations for this article were provided by Kent Solberg, Understanding Ag, LLC Stockpiled Pasture Regenerative agriculture and adaptive grazing often focus on reducing inputs in an agriculture production system. Fall grazing stockpiled pasture.
UnderstandingAg
JULY 16, 2023
For the past 40 years, our farm was in a hay, pasture and cereal grain rotation. Local practices included moldboard plowing to reseed perennial hay fields and as part of the plowing procedure, it is common to place drainage furrows with a plow on 30-60-feet centers. At first, I thought this was what I needed to do.
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Modern Farmer
JULY 31, 2023
Last year, Planet and Organic Valley completed a pilot program using satellite imagery to evaluate pasture health in service of regenerative rotational grazing. My father initially started off plowing with a horse, and here we are talking about using satellite data to measure grass at home. Agriculture is no exception.
Modern Farmer
JANUARY 20, 2024
In the spring, Steward moves her cattle out to pastures that have rested over the winter, but by the long heat of the summer, she’s wary of the ground getting too hot and baking, so she maintains a good litter cover while moving her cattle into shaded areas. million acres of grasslands across the Canadian and US Great Plains were plowed over.
Civil Eats
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Since the 1940s , oats, wheat, hay, and pasture have been replaced by a duoculture of corn and soybeans. Farmers would often plow the cover under early in the spring before it could provide optimal soil health benefits, and USDA restrictions didn’t allow much flexibility.
The Equation
MAY 15, 2023
While a small number of winter crops such as small grains (wheat, oats, barley) and forage and pasture crops such as alfalfa can use some winter rain and snow, western agriculture largely depends on a steady supply of irrigated water that has led to extreme groundwater mining.
The Lunatic Farmer
JULY 7, 2021
From a distance, the field looked like it had been plowed. Stockman Grass Farmer is the world's leading publication dedicated to pastured livestock production and it has been my compass of direction and fount of inspiration for 40 years. A few years ago we turned a 15-acre field into slurry with 500 head during a spring snow melt.
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