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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 […]

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 […]

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, […]