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Cow Pie Testing
Viewer discretion advised, cow pies ahead! We all know cows communicate by mooing. Cows also communicate through their “back-end”. Note the caption under the cow pie photo above. A “healthy looking” cow pie means the cows are healthy! We, I mean Doug, spends a lot of time…
A Cows Calling Card
Warning, poop photos! One of the many benefits of having the herd always on the move is manure distribution. A cow herd in a tight group, on the move, will evenly distribute nutrients (poop) throughout a pasture. In season long grazed pastures (cows left in a pasture for weeks at…
Schedule cows to MOVE!
How is our beef different from 99% of other beef? We keep the herd in MOTION. This requires planning, implementing and tracking. Grazing guru Joel Salatin says it this way, “I’m just the orchestra conductor, making sure everybody’s in the right place at the right time.” His…
Water Snow and Stockpiled Grass
Grassfed beef requires grass, we are grass farmers first. For grass to grow we need water and we will take it in any form; rain, dew, ice and snow. This time of year we start to think about a few things: What is our…
Cow – Icon of nutrient cycles – we need the poop!
Cattle are key to a healthy ecosystem, that is if we manage cattle in natures image. Nature provides examples of how herds such as the bison of North America or the buffalo and wildebeest of Africa work as keystone species. An important feature of these…
