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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…
Prairie Gopher Bad or Prairie Gopher Good?
Our grass growing season is coming to an end. The cattle are now grazing “stockpiled” forage. Stockpiled forage is pasture that we have not grazed for several months. The grass grew all summer long and left un-grazed as “stockpile”, for grazing during the non-growing season. While setting up…
Happy New Water Year
Well I guess it is actually New Years Eve of the Water Year. October 1st marks the start of a new water year. As grass growth slows down and becomes dormant over the next few months, the moisture we have in the soil now and what…
Colors From Our Pasture
With fall approaching, will share some recent photos from our farm. Through the summer we noticed a few Monarch butterflies. Our pasture contain a nice stand of milkweed which Monarchs need to complete their life cycle. Just this past week the number of monarchs have…
2014 Monitor Update
Monitoring of our grazing animals and the impacts on the grasslands we manage is something we do daily. What does the pasture look like ahead of our herd? What does the pasture look like where we just moved from? How do the cattle look (body condition)…
