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How Does Soil Compaction Impact Grazing Lands?

ATTRA

By Justin Morris Has your pasture been plagued by poor plant growth? Does water pond on the surface of your pasture either during or right after a rain or irrigation event? Or does water run off your pasture to the point that it leaves behind ugly scars of erosion or floods out other areas that are lower in the landscape?

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The Anatomy of a Pasture Walk

Wisconsin Farmers Union

What’s in a Pasture Walk? If you’ve been to one pasture walk or field day, you’ve almost certainly been to more because field days are like potato chips – once you try them, you can’t stop. However, getting to a field day or pasture walk can be tough with so many competing priorities in life. They’re incredibly valuable.

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Understanding pH: Success Stories: Growing Sollutions to Soil pH Challenges

UnderstandingAg

Its true that many products and practices widely adopted over the past 100 years intended to solve a problem have created new problems, sometimes more challenging than the ones they were designed to conquer. Adaptively grazed pasture remediates pH because it allows living plants the opportunity to feed the soil for an extended period of time.

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Breaking Down Soil Compaction: Does It Increase Forage Production?

Caff

Maintaining a healthy and vigorous pasture should be a major objective of grazing management, but it should also be used as a tool for maintaining acceptable soil physical conditions. The post Breaking Down Soil Compaction: Does It Increase Forage Production?

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Building Resilience Through the Conservation Stewardship Program

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

CSP pays producers to improve, maintain, and actively manage conservation activities already in place at the time of application and to adopt new conservation activities during the life of the five-year contract.

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Correcting the Record: The IRA Made More Money Available for All Conservation Work

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Climate-Smart Agriculture and Forestry Practice, CSP, FY2021 CSAF Category Practice Name Enhancement Name Code Financial Assistance Total Percentage of Total CSP Financial Assistance Nitrogen Management Nutrient Management 590 $3,369,356 $66,725,833 13.23% Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risk of nutrient losses E590A $38,293,260 Reduce (..)

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The Season of Mud

ATTRA

Our pastures are devastated by livestock feeding areas, hooves, gate ruts, excessive rain, snow melt, and lack of vegetative cover during the non-growing season. We are too aware of the cost of pasture forage restoration, truck fenders, and loss of man hours, but there is also a cost to the health and welfare of our livestock.