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, ...

Labor, water access, herd fragmentation, and rigid stocking plans are common reasons rotational grazing falls short.

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 ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Dozens of cattle, Angus mostly, hoofed their way through the Sterling Ranch planned community south of Littleton last Sunday morning, cowboys at their flanks ...

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 ...

When left to their own devices, livestock can be picky eaters, said David Fernandez, Extension livestock specialist and interim dean of Graduate Studies and Continuing Education for the University of ...

For generations, farmers have spent backbreaking hours tearing down and rebuilding fences just to move livestock to fresh ...

LAKE CITY, MI – Two facts about Michigan agriculture are scarcely recognized outside the fences and beyond the drainage ditches of the state’s 45,000 farms. The first: farming is among the most ...

Rancher John Lueken (left) and The Nature Conservancy’s Kent Wamsley (right) work together to graze cattle on Dunn Ranch Prairie, helping both the prairie and Lueken’s pasture. Dunn Ranch Prairie has ...