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Knowing Your Ranch Can Promote Accuracy in Estimating Grazeable Acres
While mapping software and aerial images help analyze grazeable acres, a Noble Research Institute grazing study shows there’s no substitute for knowing your ranch at ground level.
Getting Back To Cattle
Joe and Jeannie Dobson return to their roots to enjoy the family land after years of city life.
Rainfall and forage data guide stocking decisions
The adage "you cannot manage what you do not measure" has many applications, including stocking rate or, more accurately, carrying capacity. However, in the management of beef cattle operations, carrying capacity has traditionally received little attention.
How to Use Exclusion Cages to Better Manage Cattle Stocking Rates
Developing a proper stocking rate is among the most important practices a manager can accomplish. No fertilization plan, brush management plan, rotational grazing plan or herd genetic selection can...
Why are Cattle Essential to the Land?
Beef is not just for dinner. It’s for the benefit of the earth.
Consistency Is Key in Trace Mineral Supplementation for Grazing Cattle
Trace mineral supplementation of cattle is important, but can be confusing. Turns out psychology and a full mineral tub help grazing cattle get their nutrition.
So You Want To Grow Cover Crops: 3 Questions to Ask Before You Start
Cover crops can provide soil health benefits, but it is important to have a plan. Before growing cover crops, producers should consider goals, herbicide and pesticide use, and available resources.
Stockpiled forages reduce hay feeding
In most operations, hay feeding represents a large portion of a cow's annual maintenance cost. The cost of feeding hay includes much more than just the production cost or purchase price of the hay.
The Basics of Forage Quality
Forages contain nutrients that affect individual animal production (gain per animal) while the amount of forage produced affects production per acre.
Growing-Season Burns Improve Winter Forage Quality
Growing-season prescribed burns offer land managers the opportunity to extend their burning season to manage brush encroachment and improve forage quality.