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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 […]

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, […]

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 […]