West Texas Livestock

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Prickly pear, along with other cactus species, is a pressing issue in pastures. Prickly pear can rapidly overtake a pasture, choking out more desirable forages. Complete eradication is unlikely, even with significant […] The post How to win the battle against pasture prickly pear appeared first on West Texas Livestock Growers.

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West Texas Livestock

JANUARY 29, 2025

Have you ever wondered if your pasture is working as hard as possible? Think of it as the starting point for improving your pasture’s output. A soil test is like getting a health check-up for your landit reveals what nutrients are in the soil and how much of them are available.

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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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West Texas Livestock

JULY 31, 2024

This mode often involves taking extreme measures such as selling off a large portion of your herd […] The post How to really manage a ranch during drought appeared first on West Texas Livestock Growers. With all this difficulty, it can be easy to fall into a ‘survival’ mode during this time.

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Farmbrite

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Picture this: a picturesque ranch, rolling hills, and a herd of adorable llamas and alpacas leisurely grazing in the golden sunlight. Welcome to the delightful world of llama and alpaca ranching, where fluffy companionship meets the joy of country living. And don't forget to name each corner of your ranch.

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West Texas Livestock

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Hay, a staple and cost-effective feed, steps in to provide the necessary nutrients when pasture grass is not an option. As winter sets in, the role of hay in keeping our livestock well-fed and healthy becomes paramount.

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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

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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West Texas Livestock

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

When people hear ‘grass tetany,’ they usually think of spring – lush grasses, green pastures, and cows grazing happily. But tetany can sneak up on you even in winter when you feed your cows hay or silage. However, it can also happen when cattle are fed harvested forages like silage or hay.

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West Texas Livestock

DECEMBER 10, 2024

As temperatures drop, pastures go dormant, leaving forages unable to meet the nutritional demands of your animals. Winter brings a unique set of challenges for livestock producers.

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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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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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UnderstandingAg

MARCH 31, 2025

But that has little to do with whats possible on pasture. As another colleague observed, Its also true that some of what is labelled as grass fed in current U.S. grocery stores is doing anything other than what [the author] describes so the paper contains a measure of truth.

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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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ProAg

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

If you grow forage for grazing or haying, youve probably wondered whether Pasture, Rangeland, Forage (PRF) insurance is worth it. The PRF program was designed primarily for cattle producers who raise feed crops (pasture, alfalfa and other forage crops). Read more about PRF insurance Is Pasture, Rangeland, And Forage Coverage For You?

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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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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.

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UnderstandingAg

APRIL 3, 2025

Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. Adaptively grazed pasture remediates pH because it allows living plants the opportunity to feed the soil for an extended period of time. ton/acre/year.

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West Texas Livestock

APRIL 23, 2025

Around here in Texas, and in many other places too, it’s known for taking over pastures if left alone. It’s not just a scraggly-looking tree; it’s an aggressive woody plant that loves to spread.

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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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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.

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Western FarmPress

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Dee River Ranchs investment in grain storage, soil health prompts a shift from pasture to cropland.

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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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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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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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UnderstandingAg

MARCH 14, 2025

It also preserves your pastures from tractor traffic during wet winter conditions. If you enter August with short pastures, you will be hard-pressed to build sufficient stockpile. If you enter August with short pastures, you will be hard-pressed to build sufficient stockpile. For most areas in the temperate regions of the U.S.,

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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. In some pastures, Griggs must rely upon wells, some as deep as 800 feet, to water the livestock. A beaver is released at Maggie Creek Ranch. Jon Griggs at Maggie Creek Ranch.

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Daily Yonder

DECEMBER 4, 2023

a nonprofit owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly known as the Mormon church, has been quietly buying up ranch land in Nebraska’s Sandhills for the past three decades. confirmed that it is currently ranching on about 365,000 acres in the Sandhills. The sign at the entrance to Rex Ranch.

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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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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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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).

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West Texas Livestock

MARCH 14, 2025

When pasture grasses fall short, supplements help fill in the gaps so your animals can stay healthy and productive. Providing a feed supplement to grazing cattle is essential because sometimes the natural forage just isn’t enough to meet their nutritional needs.

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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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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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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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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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