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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 […]
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 […]
The Ecology Of Livestock Stress
06Facebook TwitterIn my last post I connected the dots between the stress I create in myself and the stress I create for my livestock. This week I will look at how this same pattern holds for the researchers that study stress in cattle. Let me explain. There are a few different ways to understand stress in […]
I figured out why the cattle were stressed. Spoiler Alert: It was me.
I used to struggle and struggle to get them to go over the tide gate, an imposing concrete edifice. I thought that it looked like a steep cliff; I thought they couldn't even see where to go. Somethings off here. I share more on my blog.