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How to care for a ram once your breeding season has ended. It is winter right now and your breeding season has probably ended. What should be done with your ram or rams? According to the questions I…
In part three of our “What’s Your Beef?” series on raising cattle on small farms, we help you answer the questions of how to safely and efficiently feed and handle large beef cattle. This…
The Cornell Small Farms Program contributed to a Cornell CALS white paper on COVID-19 impacts on food and farming, offering insight on the livestock industry. The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted individuals, families, communities, and businesses throughout New York state, and continues…
With more than 600 dairies, New York has more organic dairies than any other state. Four months have passed since the COVID-19 pandemic caused a shutdown of nearly all aspects…
How to provide drinking water for sheep. If you have sought any sort of consultation in how to set up a grazing system for sheep, you will likely have been…
In part two of our “What’s Your Beef?” series on raising cattle on small farms, we help you answer the questions of what breed of beef cattle you should get. In the first article…
In part two of our “Solar Grazing“ series, learn more about the different options for solar grazing and its potential profitability. Our last article offered a definition of solar grazing and a basic…
So you think that you would like to raise some beef cattle on your small farm? This is the first installment of a multi-part series of articles on raising beef…
Guarding means that the dog views the livestock as members of its own pack. In 2011, I wrote an article for the Small Farms Quarterly about “Livestock Guardian Dogs.”…
From a few pigs brought over on a ship to the estimated 5 million pigs currently residing in the U.S., we explore the brief and fascinating history of how and…
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