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The Season of Mud

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By Tammy Barnes , NCAT Agriculture Specialist Ah, the season of boot-sucking, tractor sliding, truck bed smashing, brown paw-printed kitchen floors, heavy pant cuffs, human swearing mud. Related ATTRA Resources: Pasture, Rangeland, and Adaptive Grazing Other Resources: Muddy Feedlot Surfaces: What Are My Options?

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Providing Water to Livestock in Frigid Weather

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This waterer provided frost-free water for the cull ewes on pasture this past week with wind chill temperatures in the 30-below-and-worse range. We have a group of doelings in another pasture and we put a heated bucket there. We haul them on the back of the pickup or we can use straps and the scoop of the tractor.

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Identifying Waste: Becoming a Lean Farming Machine

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Transportation waste can appear in many ways on your farm, such as irrigation, field layouts, or even how your livestock are transported to new pasture. This blog is produced by the National Center for Appropriate Technology through the ATTRA Sustainable Agriculture program, under a cooperative agreement with USDA Rural Development.

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