8 Steps to Successful Perennial Pasture Establishment
Agric4profits
MARCH 24, 2024
The reliable establishment is vital to ensure high levels of production and longevity from perennial pastures. Perennial pasture seeds are generally small with
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Agric4profits
MARCH 24, 2024
The reliable establishment is vital to ensure high levels of production and longevity from perennial pastures. Perennial pasture seeds are generally small with
UnderstandingAg
DECEMBER 31, 2024
The Cheapest Hay Is the Hay You Never Buy *Additional management considerations for this article were provided by Kent Solberg, Understanding Ag, LLC Stockpiled Pasture Regenerative agriculture and adaptive grazing often focus on reducing inputs in an agriculture production system. Fall grazing stockpiled pasture.
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Western FarmPress
OCTOBER 18, 2024
Here are some fall weed-control tips, plus frost-seeding techniques for maximum spring growth.
Organic Farming Research
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
Raising grass-fed beef and goats on pasture, heirloom crops on the ridge tops and fruit trees throughout, this organic farm is a patchwork of diversity. As a seed grower, Lindsay is participating in OFRF's Farmer Led Trials (FLT) Program to answer the question "Will using shade cloth improve fruit set in pepper plants grown for seed?"
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.
Civil Eats
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
He’s been collecting seeds for years. “I I seek out purity of ingredients, those that speak to my heart, and that is why for the last 10 years I’ve been collecting heirloom wheat seeds—to one day plant and watch them grow, to learn from them, and pass on their radiant life force through a loaf of bread, from the heart,” Velazquez said.
The Lunatic Farmer
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
In the protein category, the new guidelines move meat, poultry, and eggs to the bottom tier, below seafood, nuts, seeds, and soy products. But no additional differentiation exists, like the difference between grass finished and grain finished beef, or pastured poultry versus factory farmed.
Food Environment and Reporting Network
MARCH 27, 2024
Over the next 20 years, much of the country’s southern landscape was transformed into a lush, evergreen pasture capable of supporting a robust cattle industry. When scientists engineered a version of fescue without the fungal endophyte, in 1982, its hardiness disappeared and ranchers saw it die out among their winter pastures.
UnderstandingAg
JULY 16, 2023
For the past 40 years, our farm was in a hay, pasture and cereal grain rotation. What I found was the first year following the plow, the new crop looked great, but I now realize that this was the result of a release of carbon from the soil propping up the new seeding. The soil ecosystem fixes itself if you treat it correctly.
Modern Farmer
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
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. The rolling hills of Brendan Balthazar’s leased pasture up the mountain in Kula are lined with invasive trees that are difficult to maintain. It’s a one-way valve.”
Modern Farmer
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
On a humid summer day in southeastern PA, farmers have traveled hours to Pasture Song Farm to see flax in the field. Flax has been cultivated since ancient Egypt, and in the US since colonial times, when European settlers brought seeds to places such as Philadelphia, where it was mostly hand-processed and spun.
Farmbrite
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Hay is often harvested and used as animal fodder when there is not enough live pasture to graze animals on, when grazing is not feasible due to weather, or when an animal is unable to access a pasture. Hay is also used when a pasture is too lush or nutrient-rich for the well-being of livestock.
Civil Eats
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Since kava reproduces only through cuttings, not seeds, Johnstons work has been vital to preserving Hawaiis 13 known cultivars. Now overrun with acres and acres of pasture and eucalyptus, the land faces threats from pests and wildfires. For Trask, kava is also central to healing Hawaiis post-plantation scars.
Farmbrite
MARCH 4, 2025
For example, let's say that the seeds that you could find easily before are harder to find and much more expensive now. You might decide to raise the seed yourself the next year and sell locally. high-quality meat, milk production, adaptability to climate, rare breed seeds, etc.) That could be good or bad for your business.
Todays Farmer Magazine
OCTOBER 31, 2023
Experts caution producers to watch for problematic weeds that may invade pastures around hay-feeding sites. The reasons are twofold, say range and pasture experts with Corteva Agriscience. Weed seeds (they’re viable even after they’ve dried out) can linger in hay baled from fields that were not treated.
Modern Farmer
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
It made me feel so good that someone believed in me and what I was doing on my farm.” (Photos courtesy of Jeff Siewicki) He positioned himself as a pasture poultry farmer to set himself apart from industrial poultry farmers and pivoted to selling to restaurants and wholesale. “I couldn’t believe it when he bought some birds.
Modern Farmer
JANUARY 30, 2025
Around forty years ago, most of the orchards were replaced with cattle pasture. An old pasture filled in with blackberry. Whatever happens, like the wildflower seeds that stick to my trousers, the land grabs hold of me, and it wont let go. In the past decade, farmers stopped grazing cattle on the mountain.
Civil Eats
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Since the 1940s , oats, wheat, hay, and pasture have been replaced by a duoculture of corn and soybeans. Farmers can also receive payments for growing so-called “alternative” crops such as oats and other small grains, and for converting crop acres to deep-rooted perennial systems like hay and pasture.
The Lunatic Farmer
AUGUST 1, 2022
Back in May a video team spent 3 days here at Polyface filming my course titled RECLAIMING PASTURE. Many people either buy or locate onto property with neglected, overgrown, forest encroached, or low fertility pastures. I created the content, outline, filming schedule and picked the locations where we’d film.
Farmbrite
JULY 10, 2023
. • Climate conditions: growing season in your area will determine how much time is available for grazing and how often you can rotate animals through different pastures. Determine how much pasture your livestock will need each day and how much forage is required for each animal at various stages of production.
Modern Farmer
AUGUST 25, 2023
Wells could try to seed his crops early , so they can be harvested before the nymphs mature into eating machines. Farmers need warm weather to seed, and the warmer it gets, the faster the nymphs grow. It will take years for the pastures and perennial forages to recover, and that’s only if conditions improve. Does it work?
Civil Eats
MAY 6, 2024
Strips of trees, bushes, grasses, or flowers around agricultural or pasture fields can house higher numbers of small mammals than cropland. They disperse seeds, pollinate, and transfer nutrients across landscapes, supporting healthy plant populations, and they alter their environments in ways that enhance biodiversity.
ATTRA
AUGUST 8, 2023
I saw a solar array built on a lambing pasture, and a landscaper showed up with a tractor and started mowing up the solar arrays. There’s also the “Fuzz and Buzz” – a solar seed blend used at the Brookfield site that benefits pollinators and sheep. The grazing fees make that cost affordable.” “I
Farmbrite
JULY 18, 2024
It's important to understand your USDA hardiness zone and how the seed will germinate, grow, and reproduce in your area. This method is beneficial for the long-term health of your pasture and ensures that the pasture isn't overgrazed. It is a valuable supplement during the winter months when fresh pasture is limited.
Cropaia
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
Seed formation and germination: Molybdenum plays a vital role in the synthesis of phytohormones, such as abscisic acid (ABA), which regulates seed dormancy, germination, and early seedling growth. Therefore, adequate molybdenum levels are necessary for optimal seed formation and viability.
UnderstandingAg
OCTOBER 29, 2023
Just as we do by cover cropping with annuals in advance of row cropping, or even in advance of perennial pasture establishment, we can use cocktail mixes of warm-season annuals and cool-season annuals in advance of creating ornamental planting beds. This particular bed will expand from its current size and composition to cover about 1,000 sq.
CalCAN
AUGUST 15, 2023
Transitioning to or increasing pasture-based production would also be eligible. Seeds and Breeds for the Future Act The Seeds and Breeds for the Future Act is an important climate adaptation tool for agriculture. Note: This bill is being championed by CalCAN, NSAC, Organic Valley and the National Farmers Union.
The Lunatic Farmer
JULY 7, 2021
Obviously the disturbance, and then those deep tap rooted weeds, awakened the latent seed bank of timothy (some seeds no doubt had lain dormant for decades) and the conditions were perfect for that wonderful grass to express itself. For two days you can rub shoulders with like-minded graziers and converse with experts in the field.
UnderstandingAg
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
I confess to being a recovering engineer, but this is a useful way to conceptualize an invisible process that’s happening in crop fields and in pastures. It’s the tiny input from fertilizer and seed. This is a classic ‘stocks and flows’ diagram that engineers like to create. The box represents the carbon stored in your soil.
Daily Yonder
APRIL 11, 2023
Despite incentives to establish more sustainable – even organic – farming practices, most farmers are caught in an industrial system of chemicals, hybrid seed, and genetically modified (GMO) seed. Faribault County farmer Tim Perrizo was able to pay for a custom aerial cover-crop seeding for one of his 70-acre fields.
Modern Farmer
AUGUST 29, 2023
While those bovines have been helping to restore the soil on their temporary pasture, the 18 raised beds that were planted last year and ⅛-acre demonstration field have all been prepared for the students who will be starting the program in September.
Agritecture Blog
MAY 12, 2023
All this used to be pasture,” said Petronila Gutiérrez, who, together with her husband and children, runs the La Miranda farm, a 79-hectare (195-acre) property they have reforested and worked with sustainable agriculture and cattle-raising techniques. “It Here on the farm, I have more than 80 different seeds.” Image by Antonio Paz.
ATTRA
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
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. Inventory comes in many forms: raw materials (seeds, fertilizers, breeder livestock), finished goods, and work-in-progress.
Modern Farmer
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
Rauch was worried about seeding, soil compaction and whether he’d end up with one giant gravel pile. The landscape is a patchwork of timber, pasture, row crops, hunting habitat and buffer strips—an ideal model for managing agricultural land for multiple ends, according to Adam Wolf, founder and CEO of EION.
Caff
JANUARY 20, 2022
Winner’s of the 2022 Innovation Challenge will receive gifts and cash made possible by Johnny’s Select Seeds and the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources. Other finalists included Open Food Network USA , Multi Purpose Pasture Pen , and Ecolife Companies Ltd.
Modern Farmer
AUGUST 30, 2024
In the 90-minute ritual, she distributes buckets of grain and hay for the cows’ breakfast, scrapes away animal feces, fills the water trough bucket by bucket, milks the dairy cows, feeds the barnyard cats and new kittens, and shepherds sometimes recalcitrant cows out to pasture. It’s a lot of work. “To Bliss Battle.
RR2CS
APRIL 18, 2022
They’re also raising pasture-fed pork at Redtail Farms, and while the pork is a profitable venture, Griebel admits that he isn’t sure if it fits into their long-term sustainability plan. Pigs can’t survive on pasture alone,” he explains. It doesn’t need to be weeded, or seeded, or planted.
Agritecture Blog
APRIL 14, 2023
CONTENT SOURCED FROM BUILDER Written by: Symone Strong April 14, 2023 Meristem Communities' Clayton Garrett explains the idea behind Indigo, a community built around a human-scale working farm and pasture. Garrett: Indigo will create a complete community by promoting sustainable living in many forms, including a working farm and pasture.
Wisconsin Farmers Union
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
Until 2020, the Bartz family had a dairy farm; with the pressure from the dairy market, they have transitioned to holistically managed beef where cattle are rotationally grazed through 32 paddocks on the farm allowing each section of pasture to rest for 30 days before seeing livestock again. I’m always trying something new every year.
Sustainable Food Trust
JUNE 5, 2024
At the beginning of the 21 st century, nomadic pastoralist cultures throughout the world are under siege, regarded as backward, and losing their ancestral pasture grounds to ‘development’, from mining and irrigated agriculture to green energy projects.
Agritecture Blog
MAY 19, 2023
While government schemes financially incentivize planting trees and other vegetation in order to capture carbon on fallow fields, farmers are also finding that native pasture and grasses are more resilient to drought and overgrazing.
Sustainable Food Trust
JANUARY 17, 2024
While recognising the criticisms of pasture-based systems, particularly around land-use and climate, Barbour explained how grazing livestock can play a key role in reducing GHG emissions within the food system and argued that we need to look at the climate impact of ruminants in a more rounded way.
Farmbrite
AUGUST 23, 2023
Avoid overgrazing your pasture lands. Grazing is an important part of pasture management , but you must be careful not to overgraze your land. If your soil is not healthy enough to support healthy crops, you have to add fertilizer or risk losing your investment in seeds or plants.
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