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How do you spend your food dollars?

How do you spend your food dollars?

Did you know that Farmers only get 11.6 cent on every food dollar spent in the US? According to a recent study conducted by USDA, approximately 12% of every food dollar spent in the US goes to the producer. That’s not a lot for the person who has chosen a relatively...
Spring Yard Work Using Cows Continued….

Spring Yard Work Using Cows Continued….

I’m so excited to inspect my newly trampled and fertilized lawn.  There is poop everywhere!  I can’t step 2 feet without finding a pile.  (That’s what they would technically call an even manure distribution.) The hay has been eaten, and what was not eaten was...
Regenerative Grazing: A Closer Look

Regenerative Grazing: A Closer Look

“Regenerative Grazing,  Part 1”  Left us with a beautiful pastoral scene that most have been conditioned to to use as the benchmark of proper grazing techniques. This highly managed plan has resulted in cow that will not eat most plants, has lost the...
Spring Yard Work Using Cows?

Spring Yard Work Using Cows?

It’s early March and everything is brown, except for these tiny little green clumps that keep popping up in my lawn.  They get worse each year. Since my day job and the farm consume most of my time, there is little left to go around for general lawn detail.  If it’s...
Walking With Cows

Walking With Cows

  If you were raised, live, work, or frequently travel through a rural area, you have most likely encountered escaped livestock at sometime in your life.   If you have livestock, especially cattle, it’s not if they get out, it’s when.  As responsible producers,...
Regenerative Grazing, What’s That?

Regenerative Grazing, What’s That?

Regenerative Grazing Healthy Soil, Healthy Animals   The richest most nutrient dense soils known to man were not formed by man nor were they formed by the use of chemical inputs; fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides, poisons, etc. They were formed by large grazing...