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June-July 2010
David Hoover on growing and grazing great pasture.
Raw milk controversy involves more than raw milk.
Advisors explain why they graze the way they do.
Confessions of a Holistic Management supporter.
Jon Bansen on maximizing the flexibility that grazing offers.
Rob Moore on lessons learned from 10 years of raising dairy calves on cows.
In search of better farm country stories.
May 2010
April 2010
Identifying special foods and special places.
Proper promotion of the foods we’re producing.
Advisors discuss their breeding objectives.
How to keep other people’s hands out of your pockets.
What we know about how feeding affects grazing behavior.
Bonding your pup to the sheep it will guard.
Analyzing 2010 financial performances at top “hybrid” grazing dairies.
Organic forum: dealing with internal parasites.
March 2010
Grazier feeds molasses, but no grain, to get 16,000 lbs./cow.
Advisors: raising calves post-weaning.
No-grain doesn’t equal no feeding decisions.
How hunger may affect grazing behavior.
Bedding pack chisel pays off in great compost.
Study: flavor and marketing keys to grass-fed success.
Evidence that small-scale organic grazing can compete.
McNally: How to handle multiple livestock guard dogs.
February 2010
New York dairy graziers combine molasses with low-grain.
What the science says about feeding molasses.
Advisors raise calves through weaning.
Risk reduction in volatile times.
Cheap, easy, and efficient calf housing.
Nurse-cow herd produces great calves.
Organic forum: “grazing tall.”
McNally: livestock guard dogs and the changing predator landscape.
January 2010
Unexpected results from “grazing tall.”
Selling grass-fed meats in a tough economic climate.
Changing what grows through grazing management.
December 2009
Oats/turnips grazing management tips.
Where the raw milk movement is headed.
Managing several herds, including one milked once daily.
Advisors move their manure.
Organic forum: wintering stock.
November 2009
Ponds for pasture irrigation.
Fertility, and why a pasture rehab project is taking time.
Advisors on wintering their stock.
How David Surprenant survived a tough year.
Explaining the Dairy Share Rent concept.
Jim Van Der Pol on ideas for scaling up pasture pork production.
Janet McNally loves turnips for fall sheep gains.
Pastured poultry add value to a grass dairy.
October 2009
Keys to getting started in grass dairy.Advisors on how to improve pastures.
Don’t farm like everyone else!
Grass-fed cheese makers/marketers describe keys to success.
Organic forum: how we’re dealing with tougher times.
Dr. Hue Karreman: Controlling SCC the certified organic way.
Janet McNally: The power of longer grazing rotations.
Jim Van Der Pol: Using pasture to lower pork gestation and farrowing costs.
August-September 2009
Following the grass-fed beef “experts” can be costly.Grazing leaders say grain a profit drain.
Raising young Holsteins without grain.
Advisors justify their supplementation strategies.
Late-planted oats as a fall grazing option.
Get paid to graze!
Citizenship and the everyday riddles of farming.
June-July 2009
Small-scale irrigation offers alternative.Inflation-proofing on grass farms.
Planning for the next generation.
Advisors on extending the grazing season.
Organic forum: Filling pasture growth gaps.
Dr. Hue Karreman on controlling flies organically.
Adding some nesting to our boomer mentalities.
May 2009
Leading graziers offer their best ideas for dealing with tough times.
To turn your business around, take control and reach out.
Graze advisors on managing heat stress.
Long-term grazing goals vs. short-term cash flow.
Planning for late-summer pasture growth declines.
Managing sheep grazing in the wild and wooly spring.
Matching pasture plants to soil types.
April 2009
Bringing back that old-time, grass-fed milk flavor.How a trip to New Zealand changed a U.S. grass farm for the better.
Spring grazing strategies.
Premium grass-fed Holstein beef (part 2).
What we’ve learned about organic pasture management.
Winter sheep management in a mild, wet climate.
March 2009
How the Hudsons went from beef, to dairy, to a full-time living.Corn silage and stump grazing.
Producing premium grass-fed Holstein beef.
Dr. Karreman: For great calves, stick close to Mother Nature.
Making fine sheep milk cheese.
February 2009
No-grain dairy: addressing soil fertility issues.
Are you making money? Tips for figuring it out.
Be wary of horned cows.
Organic forum: dealing with hoof ailments, pinkeye, external parasites.
Dr. Karreman: keys to a successful freshening season.
Building a new economy from the bottom up.
January 2009
How to improve crossbreeding results.
Advisors on how to spend money wisely.
Dr. Hubert Karreman: dry cow management.
Tips for grass-fed beef quality.
How to adapt that new bull or ram to your farm.
How the Europeans view food.
December
2008
A successful grass-based cheese business.
Feeding change added 4,500 lbs. milk/cow.
Advisors adapt to tougher times.
Against “grazing tall,” part two.
Organic forum: good, bad and ugly of USDA pasture rule.
“Grazing tall” as a sheep parasite control strategy.
Some farmers just know who and what they are.
November 2008
Robotic milking working well on NY grazing dairy.
Benefits of pasture irrigation in a wet year.
Advisors on dry cow management.
One person’s case against “grazing tall.”
Adapting to cost creep.
October 2008
Scavenging for grazing profits in the far North.
Cheyenne Christianson on feeding no grain when there’s no rain.
For spring calving, earlier is better.
Organic forum: Whys and hows of pasture renovation.
Veterinarian Hue Karreman on fall calf management.
Grass-fed beef trial: frame and finish matter little to most.
Fighting poor pasture genetics.
August-September 2008
Advanced grazing management to target manure applications.
Making sure you have enough farm labor.
Advisors on how they manage manure.
Three milkings in two days becoming popular.
Mules and other pasture-ready crossbreeds.
Dealing with future energy realities.
June-July 2008
Martins keep cows
and soils fed and healthy, and the rest takes care of itself.
Making do at the end of the easy oil era.
Advisors talk pasture irrigation.
Organic forum: What have you done to improve forage quality and quantity?
Methods for calculating meat marketing costs.
McNally: Strengthening the ewe-lamb bond.
May 2008
"Bucket-type" pit
parlors work great for small herds.
Discovering a new meadow fescue: Part 2.
New heifer raising strategies paying off.
Advisors detail how they're dealing with higher input costs.
Why grazing is important to organic bottom lines.
McNally: Crossbreeding benefits for flocks large and small.
Raising hogs in the new age of high grain prices.
Van Der Pol: To succeed, we need to plan for seven generations.
April 2008
Young dairy grazing
couple goes from zero to $300,000 net equity in five years.
Tips for starting (and keeping) a grass dairy.
Dan Vosberg's rationale for the "modern" dual-purpose cow.
An outline of a self-sufficient, competitive no-grain dairy.
The case for top-down product pricing in a direct-market meat operation.
Organic views of vaccination.
Van Der Pol: Being a patriot to your local community.
March 2008
Grain supplementation
still paying on grazing dairies.
Janet McNally's successful experiment with field peas and triticale.
David Surprenant now has irrigation, but what should he plant?
Advisors tell how they employ (or don't employ) annual grazing crops.
Year-round marketing requirements compromising lowest-cost production model.
It still pays to feed cows well and milk them efficiently.
Van Der Pol: balancing profit targets with community goals.
February 2008
Making a comfortable living
from a 27-cow grazing dairy with a five-year crop rotation.
Nathan Weaver's
plan for attaining production independence.
Advisors tell how they raise dairy calves.
How to start new farms: offer help, but allow independent decision-making.
To really market grass-fed beef, you need the right processor.
The pains and gains of a growing direct market.
Organic forum: soil, forage and manure additives.
Janet McNally on grazing sheep in alfalfa stands.
Van Der Pol: technology vs. humanity in our choices.
January 2008
Charles Fletcher has cut
input costs and improved profits by "measuring, monitoring and managing" his
pastures.
Dan Vosberg is learning how to graze and cut alfalfa.
Advisors deal with rising nitrogen prices.
Letter from Australia: the cost pinch is being felt Down Under.
How the Wrchotas are adjusting to a changing grass-fed beef market.
Janet McNally on dealing with legume perils.
In search of a no/low grain grazing Holstein.
Improving our rural communities through the "one degree deflection."
December 2007
Discussion group and financial
analysis help a veteran grazier improve his profits.
How Janet McNally stopped worrying about animal performance, and started making
money.
Eric Grim is monitoring and measuring to get more out of his pastures.
Advisors on where they need to go, and how they plan to get there.
Nathan Weaver's plans for improving his new, infertile, farm.
Grass-fed cheese marketing effort goes no-grain right away.
Organic forum: what's your dry-cow program?
If you want special beef, find a special processor.
Jim Van Der Pol wants a more meaningful definition of wealth.
November 2007
Advice based on 10 years
of no-grain dairy.
USDA's grass-fed label: the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Young dairyman plans investments carefully so he doesn't box himself in.
Advisors on how circumstances (mainly weather) forced changes in their grazing
plans.
Janet McNally: When to wean lambs a complex decision.
Research shows grazing a learned behavior.
October 2007
Ohio organic dairy makes
money feeding no grain in pasture season, with immature barley baleage in
winter as only grain source.
Tired of watching grass die, David Surprenant springs for irrigation.
Advisors on building soil organic matter.
Strategies for capturing 90% of all nutrients.
Janet McNally: How proper grazing management made all the difference in a
drought.
Organic forum: Can we reduce grain feeding? Should we?
There's no need to supplement pasture with protein.
Van Der Pol: Europeans make the best of tough situations.
June-July 2007
The trials
of growing grass in the desert
Two ideas for grass management: "Measure, monitor, manage" vs. "understand
the grass."
Holly Burley on the "joys" of starting a dairy business.
Advisors: Why do(n't) you graze like they do in New Zealand?
Nathan Weaver forms his plans for today's and tomorrow's realities.
Letter from Australia: The value of a good consultant.
Organic forum: What's your mineral program?
Opinion: organic needs to do what people think we're doing.
March 2007
Raw milk
power in California.
Looking for farmer-driven research.
A young grazier's evolving dairy.
Advisors: What's your early spring grazing plan?
Kingshay Trust emphasizes useful information.
Grass-fed beef: With imports coming, it's time to go local.
McNally: Cutting feed costs for late-gestation ewes.
Antioxidants as dairy treatments.
January 2005
Vance Haugen launches
series on how to retrofit a milking parlor into an existing facility.
Dan Beard put a milking facility in an old hog barn.
Dan Vosberg has altered his fall grass stockpiling strategies to match weather
realities.
Advisors on their plans for 2005.
Organic forum: Raising calves to weaning.
Jim Van Der Pol tells how to fence and handle sows and cows together.