What is the Greatest Challenge for Being a Grass Farmer Today?
Through a collection of 85 columns, spanning many years as they appeared in the Stockman Grass Farmer magazine, Jim Gerrish shares his wealth of knowledge stemming from over 40 years of research and experiments at the Missouri Systems Forage Research Center, his personal farm in Missouri, ranching in Idaho and his travels worldwide. Each timeless column was selected for its application by grass farmers today.
Jim covers land improvement beginning with the soil. He offers practical steps for setting up fencing and water. His livestock grazing strategies focus on profitability and quality of life.
Chapters include the following:
* Growing the next generation.
* Assessing revenue flow by Animal Unit Day.
* Enterprise diversity and pasture diversity.
* Birthing in sync with nature.
* Making pasture inventory estimates.
The true grass farmer becomes one with their landscape and the life within it, farming in harmony with nature. Whether you have chickens, goats, sheep or cattle, the grass farmer understands the fewer steps you put between your livestock and the direct harvest of solar energy, the more likely it is that you will be profitable.