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Access to Efficiency: The Painter Ranch Family & Rotational Grazing
2017-05-12 17:17:34| National Farmers Union
By Lura Roti, South Dakota Farmers Union Running cattle on Harding County grasslands has been a part of the Painter family legacy since 1895, when Lewis Levi Painter rode the open range as a horse wrangler for the CY Cattle Company of Texas. He ran a few cows with the main herd and squatted on […]
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What Can Farmers Do About Climate Change? Rotational Grazing
2017-05-08 18:20:48| National Farmers Union
By Hannah Packman, NFU Communications Coordinator Last month on the Climate Column, we introduced the idea of prescribed grazing, a conservation practice in which the frequency and intensity of grazing, as well as the density and placement of livestock, are regulated with a specific goal in mind. Prescribed grazing can be carried out in a […]
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What Can Farmers Do About Climate Change? Prescribed Grazing
2017-04-10 19:21:11| National Farmers Union
By Hannah Packman, NFU Communications Coordinator Here on the Climate Column, we have covered a number of conservation practices, many of which are specific either to cropland, such as alley cropping, or to livestock, such as waste management. One approach that incorporates both livestock and land is prescribed grazing, which, as NRCS describes it, is the controlled harvest […]
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Access to Efficiency: Kolousek Family & Intensive Grazing
2017-02-17 16:34:39| National Farmers Union
By Lura Roti, South Dakota Farmers Union Shadowing an engineer for a few days his sophomore year of college was all the exposure Scott Kolousek needed to realize he would be happier building a career on his family’s Wessington Springs cattle and crop farm. “That experience saved me a lot of time pursuing the wrong […]
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5 Trending Headlines: ISO gets into the animal welfare business; PLUS: How swath grazing helps
2016-12-05 17:54:00| Beef
Animal welfare issues loom large and lots of people are willing to tell you how you should do it. That and more awaits you in this weeks Trending Headlines. read more
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