Just One Thing
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...
Fly Management Practices in Livestock Herds without Using Pesticides
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...
Flexible Grazing Cells Work Almost Anywhere
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...
Rejuvenating Depleted Soil with Cover Crops and Livestock
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...
This is How We Roll... Here Come the Dung Beetles!
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...
Happy Cows Don't Bawl
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...
The Allan Nation Education Scholarship Fund
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...
Business Trajectory
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...
Fat Is The Critical Element In a Good Eating Grassfed Beef Animal
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...
Using Annual Forages To Beef Up Perennial Pastures
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...
Plants Don't Need Soil, But Soil Needs Plants
By Steve Kenyon: Did you know that a plant could grow without soil? In a crack in a rock on a mountainside, a spruce tree can grow. How does it grow and where does it get its nutrients?...
Legumes Enrich Your Sward
By Karl Dallefeld: Legumes are an important part of the diversity of any pasture or cover crop and they bring far more to the table than simply nitrogen credits...