ATTRA
APRIL 23, 2024
The nighttime temperatures have been high enough to wake up the cool-season perennials in the pastures. The first question to ask is: do you really need to take on the work of establishing cover crops in pastures? The principal concern with no-tilling cover crops into perennial pasture sod is plant competition.
ATTRA
OCTOBER 24, 2023
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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ATTRA
JUNE 11, 2024
If you don’t have perfectly placed trees throughout your paddocks, you can use portable shade structures that you rotate along with your portable mineral feeder and water tanks when you move your livestock to fresh pastures. A relatively new way of providing shade for livestock is grazing around solar panels. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.
ATTRA
APRIL 2, 2024
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.
ATTRA
AUGUST 20, 2024
Imagine standing in a green pasture with sheep grazing peacefully. Behind every piece of clothing, there’s a story about soil health and sustainable practices that affect how our clothes are made and their impact on the environment. Let’s explore how wool and cotton fibers are produced and why it matters to all of us. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.
Food Tank
AUGUST 16, 2024
But family farmers are also vulnerable to challenges including the climate crisis, lack of support and financing, and limited access to land resources and market opportunities, says Esther Penunia, the Secretary General of the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development.
ATTRA
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
Pasture fertility, healthy livestock, reduced nutrient runoff, all thanks to dung beetles. Even if you’re not a romantic, there are still plenty of other reasons to love dung beetles: it’s estimated that they provide millions of dollars’ worth of nutrient retention and pest fly reduction per year. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.
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