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Manage Your Pasture's Nitrogen Cycle
While legumes can put quite a bit of nitrogen (N) into a pasture, just how effectively are you as a grazier recycling N in your pasture system? ...
Can legume nitrogen do it alone?
The question of whether pasture can run on legume nitrogen (N) alone always arises when fertilizer prices increase, as is the case today...
Swath grazing
Swath grazing is becoming an increasingly popular way of feeding cattle during winter months on the Northern Plains and in the Canadian Prairie Provinces...
Fixed or flexible grazing cells?
When it comes to designing Management-intensive Grazing (MiG) systems, every farm or ranch is different. Every producer has a different set of goals,...
Is Pasture-Finishing For You?
Is pasture-finishing for you?
With increasing numbers of consumers seeking meats produced in what they believe to be more humane and environmentally sustainable systems, more beef...
Jim Gerrish feted
Jim Gerrish, author of BEEF magazine's Grazier's Page, is the recipient of the American Agricultural Editors' Association (AAEA) 2006 Distinguished Service...
Stocking rate vs. stock density
I've found recently that a number of cattlemen and other livestock producers really don't understand the difference between stocking rate and stock density....
From Our Columnists
Advocate or Perish
"While the affluent nations can certainly afford to adopt ultra low-risk positions toward new advances in agricultural science and technology, and pay...
Don't Market Like 2008
Many ranchers' first inclination in marketing their 2009 calves is to base it on their 2008 calf crop experiences. That could be a serious mistake...
No Silver Bullet
I was so impressed with Richard Roth's letter to the editor that I thought it deserved some follow-up...
