By Joel Salatin: What will your farm look like one year after you’re gone? Do you have a plan? In December 2019 Stockman Grass Farmer went out on a limb and hosted the first in-depth school on succession...
By Joel Salatin: What could I tell SGF readers ONE THING to do that would change everything? Are you waiting with baited breath? Drum roll, please...
By Greg Judy: Don't get hood winked into thinking that your only option for fly control is purchasing something to pour on them or in them. Whatever you put on your animal ends up in the soil with devastating effects on your farm's soil life. You can do it, keep your money in your pocket not someone else's...
By Jim Gerrish: If you have wondered how large of a property you can manage with a flexible grazing cell, the answer is probably much larger than you ever thought...
By Heather Smith Thomas: When you want to rejuvenate tired fields, there's a certain path to follow in order to get the soil biology back into proper balance...
By Steve Kenyon: We have a really crappy job and I would like to tell you a little bit about ourselves. We are known as a scarab beetle or commonly called a dung beetle...
By Tina Williams and Richard McConnell: Richard's cows used to bawl. He used to rotate his cows every three days. On the 2nd day his cows would hear his truck coming home from work, gather at the gate, and start bawling...
As a memorial to Allan Nation we have established a scholarship fund to help young people attend one of The Stockman Grass Farmer Schools. Learn More Here...
SGF is filled with real success stories each month that show increased profit does not come from buying more tractors, a bigger bull or more fertilizer. It comes from knowledge...
By Joel Salatin: As the new local, pastured, carbon-based food movements converge, consolidation and collaboration are in the air. The days of the single-family farm servicing 100-400 customers may be harder to maintain. A fascinating article debunks four basic assumptions in today’s business world...
By Dr. Anibal Pordomingo: Producer experiences show that marbling early is easier if we start with a good nutritional management of the cow during the last half of gestation and during the first four months after calving...
By Jim Gerrish: There has been a tremendous surge in the use of annual forages over the last several years. Part of this has been driven by the increased use of annual cover crops in mixed farming-livestock production systems. There has been a spillover of interest in putting annual forages into existing perennial pastures. I am pretty sure I have received more questions on that topic in the last two to three years than I had in the previous 20-30 years combined...
