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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Eden? No, thanks. I can do better.

08Facebook TwitterWe feel peaceful when we are in a landscape that has short green grass, some scattered trees with their branches pruned up high, and some closely hedged shrubs. We like this sort of landscape because these queues suggest that there are a lot of animals. We feel peaceful and content in this environment because that […]

Land Use and Stress

08Facebook TwitterA recent paper, "The Origin of the State: Land Productivity or Appropriability?" (Mayshar et al., 2022), highlights how seemingly small changes in subsistence can have vast and far-reaching implications for human well-being. In this paper, the researchers suggest that throughout history, the development of tax-fueled states and empires required grain agriculture, not necessarily high production […]

Savanna LLC Retains Grazing Lease, Considers Subleasing Organic Certified Western Oregon Ranch

06Facebook TwitterSavanna LLC is looking for an experienced grazing manager to sublease its organic certified Western Oregon ranch but will retain the grazing lease. The company is investigating other opportunities and may sublease the ranch to a manager preferably experienced with Bud William's Low-Stress Stockhandling and forage management.Retaining the lease allows the new ranch owner to […]