Birds, Bees and Butterflies

What a great time of year to be in the pastures!  Butterfly season is in full display.  What is your favorite color?  Brown, white, yellow, blue, black, orange or yellow?  God’s diversity is amazing.  To bad butterflies are so difficult to photograph, they just…

Graze or Browse the Leaf Drop?

We all enjoy the beauty of trees in fall colors.  What does this season change mean for the land and animals?  What is nature doing?  How would large herbivores such as buffalo respond to the annual leaf drop?  These are the questions to think…

Reed Canary Animal Impact Revisited

With the recent warm weather, forages are green when they are normally brown this time of year.  Especially down in the swamp pasture.  This wetland area is quite unique, tucked between the more common rolling hills of Lancaster County.  While trudging through the muck with portable fence I…

Prairie Gains – Guest Post

We are really excited about the post below.  I recently had the opportunity to meet Daniel and Allyson of Lovegrass Beef.  Daniel has a passion for prairies!  Enjoy Daniel’s guest post: Prairie Gains By Daniel Frank – Lovegrass Beef With spring finally here, and plants…

Animal Impact – reed canary grass example

Planned pasture grazing requires orchestrating cattle movement.  Yep we think of our cattle moves like making music but we are really trying to get some desired effect applied to the land.  Here is an animal impact example from this past spring.  In an area invaded by…