Mean temperatures keeping cows lean
Some cows I’ve seen lately look thinner than normal for this time of year. With more than a month of winter remaining, it could...
It’s time to evaluate your pastures
There is no time like the present to evaluate your pasture fields for damage from over grazing and weather related stress. While you are...
Pasture measurement can improve management
When the management of grazing is discussed, what are the topics of that discussion? Typically, they involve forage growth, forage varieties, soils, animal nutrition,...
Purchasing seed for new pastures
The days are getting longer, which means spring is just around the corner! Having grown up in a warmer climate than Ohio, I like...
Winter pasture management can also be mud management
Let me paint you a winter pasture management picture. Here sits our grazier, indoors next to a cozy wood stove fire while the farm's...
Plan now for your winter feeding
Winter is here, are you ready? The single largest expense of keeping livestock is winter feeding costs. Winter feed costs will be expensive this...
Winter grazing may be right for you
The lack of adequate rainfall in our area this summer and fall left many producers with less forage than they would like, but that...
Review resources available for livestock
As the lazy, hazy days of summer have been replaced by Jack Frost and thoughts of sugar plums dancing in our heads, our farm...
A few, not all, forages can be toxic after frost
Fall is in the air and Jack Frost will certainly arrive soon. Each year after the first hard frost, I usually answer phone calls...
Fall: It’s not the end of the grazing season, it’s the beginning
October signals the coming end to our pasture-growing season. In some cases the growing season equals the grazing season. When pasture growth ends, so...
