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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. […]
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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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