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A Thinking Person’s Guide to Total Grazing / Mob Grazing Part II

Last week I looked at a recent study conducted by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. That study brought up some uncomfortable realities about Total Grazing / Mob Grazing, as far as its proponents are concerned.I went on to discuss how I think that grazing studies of this kind are fundamentally flawed. Still, this study lines up […]
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A Thinking Person’s Guide to Total Grazing / Mob Grazing Part I

I have had an amazing season, some of which is due to mob grazing / total grazing. When I was in high school in the late nineties and saw pictures of Johann Zietzmann's operation, I was convinced that all livestock should be “mob grazed” (it would be a decade before I heard that term). A […]
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A Thinking Person’s Guide to Set-Stocking Part III

10Facebook InstagramTwitterYouTubeLast week I discussed, extensively, of some very mundane cattle movements. One of the reasons that I opted for the play-by-play approach to presenting that information is that I want to make it clear that this is not ‘just turning them out.’ I probably didn’t need to be so busy, but maybe I did. Also, […]
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A Thinking Person’s Guide to Set-Stocking Part II

10Facebook InstagramTwitterYouTubeLast week I set the stage for a little set stocking experiment I did on ten acres of ground that I have always treated as ‘extra.’ It's around the house, and I just want it to look pretty (see YouTube). I have five hundred acres of production ground where I raise 500 head of grass-finishing […]
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A Thinking Person’s Guide to Set-Stocking

08Facebook TwitterLast week I described how Bud and Eunice Williams got pretty nervous when I started talking about my passion for grass management. When I asked him why, Bud simply said, “Sometimes people will bring livestock back to a pasture at just the wrong time for the grass and it really knocks it. They would have […]
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A Thinking Person’s Guide to Thinking About Bad Grazing

These are the pastures created by the best minds in grazing management.08Facebook TwitterAbout fifteen years ago, I was talking to Eunice Williams about my ambitions around grass management.“Did you hear that, Bud?” she said. “This one is interested in grass.”“Uh-oh,” was Bud’s only reply. I am starting to understand what they meant. Last week I wrote about […]
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