This Winter, Improve Soil Health (and Your Life) With Bale Grazing — On Pasture
We’re bringing this article to you from an August 2017 issue of On Pasture because this is a great time to start thinking about setting up bale grazing this coming winter. 24 more words via This Winter, Improve Soil Health (and Your Life) With Bale Grazing — On Pasture
Prairies Help Us Understand Antibiotic Resistance — On Pasture
This article comes to us from Sandra Avant, ARS Office of Communications, USDA Agricultural Research Services. It was published in the September 16 issue of AgResearch Magazine. 29 more words via Prairies Help Us Understand Antibiotic Resistance — On Pasture
Is It Ready Yet? How to Know When You Can Start Grazing a New Planting — On Pasture
Last year about this time, an On Pasture reader asked us when he could start grazing a planting he’s was getting ready for fall forage. We figured there’d be more of you out there this summer with the same question. 16 more words via Is It Ready Yet? How to Know When You Can Start Grazing […]
Here’s What Reducing Pasture Recovery Periods Can Cost You — On Pasture
We all know that giving our pastures enough time to recover before grazing them again is critical to our success. But what may be news is how big the impact of just a few days less of recovery can turn into a problem that costs us forage and money. 7 more words via Here’s What Reducing […]
3 grazing ratios you should obsess over to be profitable — Beef Magazine
Profitability in the cattle business is possible. Here are three ratios that will add cash to your bottom line. via 3 grazing ratios you should obsess over to be profitable — Beef Magazine
5 tips for managing underconditioned cows — Beef Magazine
It is that time of year where cattle producers are starting to wean spring calves and are starting to look towards what lies ahead. via 5 tips for managing underconditioned cows — Beef Magazine
A $2 per cwt. rally in cash fed cattle prices last week helped feedyar —
A $2 per cwt. rally in cash fed cattle prices last week helped feedyards post small average profits and erase the previous week’s $43 per head loss. via A $2 per cwt. rally in cash fed cattle prices last week helpagweb.com/…/rally-pulls-margins-into-the-black
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Part 2 of Figuring Pasture Rental and Use Rates: Animal Units and Profit Sharing — On Pasture
We first covered this back in 2015. Here’s the third part in the series with some updates suggested by On Pasture readers. If you’ve missed the first two, here they are: How Much to Pay for Leased Pasture – 2018 Doing the Math on Pasture Rental Rates Part 1 Animal Unit Months Figuring pasture use… via […]
Everything You Need to Include in a Farm/Ranch Lease Contract – Part 1 — On Pasture
Over the last few months, my Boneheaded Beef Business Blunders articles have related how I’ve been burned by ineffective land lease and custom grazing contracts. As a result, I’ve changed what I include in contracts. 21 more words via Everything You Need to Include in a Farm/Ranch Lease Contract – Part 1 — On Pasture