grazing management

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  • Reclaiming and Establishing Pastures and Hayfields

    Rich Taber

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    In part five of our series, Where’s the Grass?, we share there are many ways to establish and improve grazing lands and hayfields. People often ask me how they should go about improving their pasturelands and hayfields. The devil, as they say, is in the details. This all depends on what class of livestock you…

  • Carrying Capacity

    Ulf Kintzel 

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    How many sheep can you raise per acre? The question about how many sheep per acre one can raise is almost guaranteed to be asked when people inquire about my White Dorper breeding stock, especially when they are beginners. It also is the question that is the hardest to answer because it depends on so…

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  • Should I Fertilize My Beef Pastures?

    Rich Taber

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    In part 17 of our “What’s Your Beef?” series on raising cattle on small farms, we discuss grazing conditions for beef cattle and other classes of grazing livestock.    My motivation in writing this article is due to the many atrocious grazing conditions that I find beef cattle and other classes of livestock grazing in…

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  • What’s Your Beef?

    Rich Taber

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    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 cattle on the small farm. In this series of articles in the Small Farms Quarterly, I will outline many of the topic areas that you…

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