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Practical Serengeti Part III; Early Summer

We explore the common paradigm adopted by eco-grazers for managing grass. We argue this approach has significant problems.

Practical Serengeti, Part II Spring

We explore the common paradigm adopted by eco-grazers for managing grass. We argue this approach has significant problems.

Practical Serengeti, Part I Winter

Home About Blog Contact Home About Blog Contact February 8, 2023 Practical Serengeti, Part I Winter For a little while now, I have been thinking that our ideas about grass management, (both in the regular ranching world and in the eco-grazing world) are all wrong. I haven’t had much else to say about it until […]

Big Announcement

We had a fantastic season this year. After six years of management, including some real hardships and struggles, we came through to the other side. About mid-way through the season in 2021, about a year and a half ago, something clicked into to place. The grass just started to produce, and since then, I have […]

Nature’s Stock Density. Hint: Its going to be different in late spring vs. early summer.

Mimicking nature is more difficult than it seems. Or maybe its more simple. One of the two. Often when grazers think they are mimicking nature they are actually mimicking their neighbors. Other times they are mimicking what they read in a book or some blog. Ranchers are often motivated by a fear of being weird. […]

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 […]