Category: Regenerative Agriculture
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How Summer Prescribed Burns Can Be A Safe And Efficient Way To Regenerate Grazing Lands
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes
Learn how prescribed burns during the growing season can help restart nature’s clock by improving forag...
What To Do If Your Forage Production Is Less Than Halfway There By End Of June
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes
By the end of June, in most years, more than half of the forage needed for the year has already been prod...
How To Select And Train Good Guardian Dogs For Your Ranch
Estimated reading time: 9 minutes
Livestock guardian dogs play a valuable role in protecting small ruminants while they graze. Here are sel...
A Restoration Tale: Ruminants Small and Large Help Regenerate Depleted Prairie
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes
See how a researcher and his family restored soil health, native grasses and diverse forages to abused an...
How to Find Tenants Who Will Take Care of Your Soil
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes
Shared goals and long-term mindsets make the best partnerships for regenerative management of leased land...
How To Be Regenerative on Other Peoples’ Land
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes
Good communication and getting landlord buy-in are good starting points when building soil health on leas...
Cover Crop Confessions: Mistakes We Made and Lessons We Learned (And What We’re Still Learning)
Estimated reading time: 10 minutes
Converting from conventional cropping to regenerative practices can be a challenge in the early years. No...
Can Management Alone Build Plant Diversity, or Are Cover Crops Always Needed? One Expert Weighs In.
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes
Cover crops have skyrocketed in popularity over the last several years — and for good reason. But are t...
How To Use Your Best Stockmanship When Moving to Greener Pastures
Estimated reading time: 9 minutes
Stockmanship takes on extra importance and value when moving animals in a regenerative ranching operation...
Here’s What Cover Crops You Should Plant This Spring
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
Your context and goals will dictate the warm-season mix you need on your regenerative ranch.
Wildlife Watch: Build Diversity And Enterprise Income By Tracking Deer And Other Wildlife Populations
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes
Monitoring wildlife populations and variety on your ranch can be a barometer and a decision-making tool.
Biodiversity, Birds and BirdNET (and Why They All Matter)
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes
Pollinator Power: Three Reasons Bees, Butterflies, Bats And More Are Important To Your Ranch
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes
Why you want them, how to know what you’ve got and how to get more.
Wildlife Watch: Abundant Ground-nesting Birds Sign of Healthy Grasslands
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes
Ground nesting bird populations are essential indicators of your ranch’s ecological health.
Proper livestock stocking rate supports operation, wildlife
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
Overgrazing can cause poor forage and livestock production, wildlife habitat loss, soil erosion and other...
Aquatic Vegetation in Ponds
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes
This article originally appeared in the March 1998 Ag News and Views newsletter, revised 2023.