WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Some pastures could use a little time off, and a rotational grazing system is the perfect R and R, said a Purdue University Extension beef specialist. Rotational grazing ...

John and Cathy Burgett have owned and operated their 200-head dairy farm in Tully for nearly three decades knowing it sits over the Cortland-Homer-Preble aquifer, the only source of drinking water for ...

A study by USDA’s Economic Research Service finds 40% of cow-calf operations use rotational grazing and less than half of them use intensive rotational grazing. Of the operations reporting using ...

STURGIS, S.D. — Decades back, brothers Ed and Rich Blair ran a 50-heifer herd on 700 acres. The land had been used for farming and for haying previously, but the Blairs set up a rotational grazing ...

In an Oklahoma State University rancher webinar, Paul Beck, associate professor of animal science at OSU, discussed the controversial concept of which is better—continuous grazing versus rotational ...

DETROIT LAKES — The 57 cow-calf pairs on the Tim and Angie Lehrke farm near Ogema spend almost all their time outside, all year round. They are moved every few days among a half-dozen areas of grazing ...

Moving livestock from field to field to lessen the impact of their grazing practices is slowly taking hold, and some proponents say new federal funding coupled with better outreach could get more ...

Twenty-five years ago, Brian Pemberton bought acreage filled with thorn trees, scrub brush and multiflora roses. The only water source was a frog pond. The land needed four things: a road, buildings, ...

QUITMAN — Tony and LeVonna Uekman of Quitman are in the “consignment” business. Other farmers bring them their cattle “on consignment,” Tony said. He said they raise the steers or heifers, which are ...

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PRODUCING palatable and nutritional silage as a key feed for livestock during the winter is not easy given Scotland’s unpredictable climate, but a dry weather window last year resulted in one of the ...