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 ...

Find out why rotational grazing for cattle is easier and more efficient for small farms. Many years ago, the livestock on our farm consisted of a handful of cows and a couple dozen chickens. We’ve ...

Rotational grazing is often promoted as a cure-all for pasture health, soil conservation and ranch profitability. Yet adoption remains surprisingly low, said state forage specialist with University of ...

Moving livestock through different pastures or paddocks during the grazing season can help minimize overgrazing and more fully utilize forage. However, the number of ranchers adopting rotational ...

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 ...

In this video, I discuss rotational grazing and its benefits for animal health and land quality. This method involves breaking up a large pasture into smaller sections to mimic historical grazing ...

Beef and sheep farmer John Ritchie, winner of Farmers Weekly’s Grassland Manager of the Year 2023, replaced set stocking with rotational grazing on his Perthshire hill farm. He will be sharing updates ...

You’ve seen it plenty of times: bare pasture grazed down to the nub. Who wouldn’t rather look out of the stable to see happy horses grazing on healthy pastures? One solution lies in rotational grazing ...

At the tail end of the growth season making the most of your grass and maintaining pasture quality becomes far more challenging. The aim is to keep grass in the cow’s diet as long as possible whilst ...

If you already know your rotations from your residuals and your cover from your wedge, then you probably need to read no further. This guide is for beef suckler farmers who want to get more precise ...

Rotational grazing of cattle in native pasturelands in Brazil's Pantanal and Cerrado regions can benefit both cattle and wildlife, according to a new study. Rotational grazing of cattle in native ...

CANTON, Minn. — Over 30 years ago, Vance and Bonnie Haugen drove onto a foreclosed farm in southeastern Minnesota and saw not what was there, which was scraped-down corn and soybean ground, but what ...