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Make more meat and milk from your pastures.
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Discussion Group -- Share tips with other graziers. This page has the
latest digest and index to previous digests. (You must subscribe first to view
digests.) To recieve digests or individual messages via email, sign up
starting from the onelist.com homepage.
Cover Crop and Forage Seed Sources -- Find
the varieties you need to fit your pasture system.
Features:
Grazing Alfalfa Successfully -- It takes
a careful balance between the needs of the stock and the needs of the stand,
says the University of Missouri's Jim Gerrish.
Low-Stress Livestock Handling -- Herding
methods and facilities that put less stress on you and your stock.
Elegy for a Giraffe -- Roger Wentling
stuck his neck out so farmers could reap the benefits of rotational grazing. A
tribute to the late controversial grazing advocate by Ruth Tonachel.
How-To:
Seasonal Dairy on Pasture: The Forgey Files
-- How-to advice from Indiana's pioneering seasonal dairy grazier.
Beat Summer Slump and Tame
Thistles
-- Advice for summer pasture management from in our
Gear Up For Grazing area.
Pastured Poultry Resources
-- Want to make $25,000 from 20 acres? Here's how. Pictures, descriptions
and links.
Sample Pastures
Right -- In this graze-l post, Minnesota grazing expert Doug Gunnink
tells how to get the best results from a fresh forage analysis.
Build A Freeze-Resistant Stock Tank --
Here's how a Kansas grazier keeps the water flowing in winter.
Gear Up For Grazing -- This series of articles
originally published in the
New York Pasture Association Newsletter
provides timely tips on forage and stock management, ration balancing,
laneways, weed control and more.
Fencing:
Make A Well-Grounded (Earthed) Fence -- Tips
from a New Zealand grazing farmer and consultant to keep your fence hot and
your stock in.
17 Mistakes To Avoid With Electric Fencing
-- Lessons Montana range consultant Wayne Burleson learned the hard way, so you
won't have to.
Online Fence Building References -- Links
to fencing tips and techniques for management-intensive grazing systems.
Hot Links:
Mobile Calf-Grazing Module -- Keeps calves
healthy while helping them reap the benefits of pasture at an early age.
Pigs on Pasture --
Take a virtual tour of the Gunthorp farm at American Farmland Trust's
grassfarmer.com site. While you're there,
stop by and see Tools for Graziers,
innovative solutions including a windscreen, shade trailer, and more.
grassfarmer.com -- This growing site from
American Farmland Trust features their
Cove Mt. grass dairy projectinnovative
parlors for dairy graziers,
and tools for graziers.
Ye Olde Forage Library
Card Catalogue -- West Virginia University Extension grazing specialist
Ed Rayburn has started this collection of classics with D.B. Johnstone-Wallace's
1938 pamphlet
Pasture
Improvement and Management, a work cited often by Andre Voisin in his book,
Grass Productivity. (If the cover page image is slow to load, just
click on the hand in the top right corner of the page to go right to the table
of contents.)
Sustainable Ranching Research and
Education Project -- University of California Extension project,
includes controlled grazing basics, extensive nutrition info, fencing design and
construction, events calendar, links and more. Don't miss the online
low-stress livestock
handling tips featuring info from stockmanship guru Bud Williams.
Profitable Dairy
Options -- This online brochure from the USDA-SARE program's
Sustainable Agriculture Network
offers a myriad of innovative methods for dairy farmers around the country to
cut costs and add value to the products they sell. Topics range from tapping
specialty markets to grazing, composting and nutrient management.
Spring Turnout and The Grazing Wedge --
Advice and powerful tools to manage spring pasture growth.
More grazing links.
![graze-l logo](images/grazel.gif) Graze-l Archives--
A great source of grazing advice.
Anyone with more than a casual
interest in management- intensive grazing should subscribe to the graze-l
listerv for the excellent advice offered by some of the world's best graziers
and grazing specialists. Find directions for joining this international forum
as well as searchable archives from this homepage (or use F.W. Owen's
Unofficial Graze-l Search
Engine). Most of the discussion focuses on U.S. and New Zealand practices.
But contributors from Ireland and South America also contribute. Highly
recommended. |
Free
ATTRA Grazing Publications
They're free and they're only a
toll-free phone call away.
The Appropriate Technology Transfer for
Rural Areas program has several publications of interest to graziers, including:
- Sustainable Pasture Management
- Rotational Grazing
- Grass-Based and Seasonal Dairying
- Alternative Fly Control
- Meeting the Nutritional Needs of Ruminants on Pasture
- Sustainable Chicken Production
- Sustainable Beef Production
See this
graze-l posting
for more information. To order publications, call ATTRA from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30
p.m. (CST) Monday through Friday at 800-346-9140. |
Free
Grazing Publication Samples
Contact the publications below to get a
free issue:
- The Stockman Grass Farmer, PO Box 2300-P, Ridgeland, MS,
39158-2300. Toll free: 800-748-9808, or email
sgfsample@aol.com.
- Graze, PO Box 48,
Belleville, WI 53508. Phone: 608-455-3311 or email graze@mhtc.net
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