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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…
Portable fence through six foot tall grass?
Recently we shared the photo below of a white poly wire portable fence disappearing into a paddock full of 6 foot tall stockpile. If you were wondering how in the world we get that done, we give some more info here. It is actually fairly simple, we…
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…
Animal impact while farming grass
Year round grazing on pasture presents some interesting situations for us grass farmers. In this past post from July 2015 we demonstrated the results of planned animal impact on a wetland site heavily used through the non-growing season. Below we show what we had to…
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…
