ATTRA

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This week’s episode of Voices from the Field is a conversation about Texas A&M University’s Center for Grazinglands and Ranch Management, hosted by NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist Darron Gaus. She and Darron are co-leaders of the Southern Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education’s Soil for Water Texas Working Group.

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AgriLife Today

MARCH 27, 2024

David McKnight ’73 Ranch Management University expands seating Seating has been expanded for the award-winning and renamed David McKnight ’73 Ranch Management University, which is scheduled for April 8-12 at Texas A&M University in Bryan-College Station.

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AgriLife Today

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Weeds, pest management to be highlighted The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service in Bexar County will present the Fall Pasture Management program Sept. Read More → The post Fall pasture management program Sept. Read More → The post Fall pasture management program Sept. 19 in San Antonio.

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AgriLife Today

MARCH 21, 2024

Continuing education units available to participants The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will host a virtual East Texas Pasture Management Program on April 5. Read More → The post Virtual East Texas Pasture Management Program set April 5 appeared first on AgriLife Today. The online program will run from 8:30 a.m.-3

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 27, 2024

Maintaining and building fences is a yearly job on every ranch, costing at least $20,000 per mile. 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 Today, more than 620,000 miles of fence branch across the western United States.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

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. Trisha has traveled to Washington, D.C.,

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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.

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Caff

OCTOBER 26, 2022

For this month we’re highlighting a farm that provides their community with a wide range of delicious food, Red Gate Ranch. Q&A Why did you start to ranch/grow food? ” What is one thing you wished you knew before you started ranching/ growing food? ” Where do you see your ranch in 5 years?

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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!

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AgriLife Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Event features talks on pest control, aquatic vegetation management The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will host a continuing education workshop at the Wichita Falls Ranch and Farm Expo in Wichita Falls on March 8. The event will be from 8:45 a.m.-3:30 at the J.S. Bridwell Ag Center, 111 N. Burnett St., with registration.

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West Texas Livestock

AUGUST 4, 2024

Introducing protein tubs into your pasture is a convenient way to provide additional nutrition. Once it’s in place, you don’t need to check it daily, which is particularly beneficial for those with other commitments, such as a job in town, who can’t be on the ranch daily.

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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.

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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.

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USDA Blog

AUGUST 23, 2023

One week on the job can take organic inspectors from a field crop farm to a dairy pasture or food production facility. Inspectors audit organic farms, ranches, and businesses to verify that they follow the USDA organic standards.

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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.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 5, 2024

Eric and Mikala both knew that they could raise hogs outdoors, but it wasn’t until they started partnering with Niman Ranch that they could make it work financially and begin to grow their business. “I Niman Ranch is a network of more than 600 small and mid-size farmers and ranchers across the U.S.

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AgriLife Today

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Forage producers around the state are battling fall armyworms to defend high value pastures and fields for hay and grazing,

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

By Trina Moyles Tim Wray grew up on his family’s cattle ranch in Irricana, a small town located 50 kilometres northeast of Calgary in southern Alberta. He’s hopeful that their lessons learned will help to shape how they ranch over the next five years. We hadn’t had a significant rain event since July of 2020,” says Tim. ‘A

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West Texas Livestock

JUNE 17, 2024

Summer pneumonia, sometimes referred to as pasture pneumonia, is a disease that is usually observed in calves on pasture late in summer. It can affect calves from one month old to even five months old who have yet to be weaned.

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Agwired

AUGUST 22, 2024

Halter technology is a powerful system that helps users precisely manage pasture to lift the performance of the animals grazing it,” says Craig Piggott, Halter Founder and CEO. Halter collars are lightweight and powered by two small solar cells at the top of the collar which are connected via solar-powered towers on the ranch.

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

With dry conditions affecting pastures across Alberta, this practice could help build resiliency in your pastures and livestock during times of drought. But did you know that AMP grazing can also improve water infiltration in your soil?

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 20, 2024

Mickey Steward has worked hard to rehabilitate her ranch. You can’t buy a good ranch,” Steward jokes. You have to buy a ranch that, for whatever reason, has gotten rundown.” She and her husband started ranching in their late 20s, and they’ve been at it for more than 40 years now. “We But then, she’s had to.

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AgriLife Today

MARCH 5, 2024

million acres of ranchland and pastures blackened by wildfires across the Texas Panhandle. AgriLife Extension helps Texas Panhandle ranchers identify nutritional needs of displaced livestock Truckloads of hay are rolling in from across Texas and beyond, bringing much-needed feed for cattle in the wake of more than 1.2 According to U.S.

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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.

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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. By investing in this insurance, you safeguard your financial health and ensure your ranch remains productive, even when nature doesn’t cooperate. What is PRF Insurance?

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

APRIL 23, 2024

This year’s winners of the Soil Your Undies challenge are Liz and Randy Mittag of Shadow Ridge Ranch. Their cattle are rotationally grazed, meaning they move through pastures often enough that each pasture has time to rest and rejuvenate before seeing livestock again.

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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

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ATTRA

AUGUST 20, 2024

Imagine standing in a green pasture with sheep grazing peacefully. On family ranches, taking care of the soil is crucial for producing high-quality wool. These ranches not only produce great wool but also create jobs and support local businesses. This is where the story of wool begins.

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UnderstandingAg

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In fact, in some areas, you could start to see cactus and all sorts of prickly vegetation starting to dominate pastures, just like back home in the desert. We saw a lot of countryside in Uruguay as we drove from ranch to ranch. Pictured here is a set of good-looking cows with strong grass-fed genetics.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Some roam through pastures testing bunches of fescue, a cool-season grass, for the sweetness the frost brings. based Vence , which was acquired by veterinary pharmaceutical giant Merck Animal Health in 2022, has been slowly rolling out a similar system on larger cattle ranches across the West since 2019.

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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. In this episode, we are joined by Barry Yaremcio of Yaremcio Ag Consulting Ltd to learn more about feed alternatives.

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Agwired

JUNE 18, 2024

On June 1, CK6 Consulting and Texas Beefhouse launched Bid on Beef , the vision of Chris Earl, owner of Reverse Rocking R Ranch and CK6 Consulting in New Mexico. L-R: Wes Tiemann, Amanda Radke, Chris Earl, and Kody Fleeman, A new kind of auction platform for beef sales was launched this month.

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UnderstandingAg

JULY 16, 2023

This is the how, why and for what reason a farm/ranch does what it does. Seeing the changes By 2017, we were seeing a positive response to rotationally grazing the pastures with stockers including more plant diversity, healthier plants, and better cattle performance. Context is also a way of explaining future goals.

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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.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Skoglund harvested nearly a bison a week out in his pastures last year to meet consumer demand. Left: Instead of trucking his bison to slaughter, Matt Skoglund drives out into the pasture and loads his rifle. Montana is known for ranching. This way, his animals spend their entire lives on pasture and surrounded by the herd.

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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.”

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

His 10 Layers of Permanence build on the work of Yeomans; you will never see your farm, ranch, or homestead the same way once you’ve encountered his thinking. Perhaps no one in America has a better handle on genetics and low-input ranching and farming than this experienced producer. Much of what I know, I learned from him.

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