Category Serengeti
People say that you can’t “take half/leave half” when grazing, so you have to make the cattle graze everything. That is nonsense, but I understand why they say it.
The Masai in the Serengeti are in the news. In order to understand that situation you need to understand that African communal land is the most degraded land on the planet.
American ranchers can learn a lot from the world’s calmest cattle, though maybe not much about cattle handling.
Practical Serengeti Part III; Early Summer
Practical Serengeti, Part II Spring
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…
Serengeti Grazing Lessons Part… I lost track.
For most people, water flows downhill, but on our ranch I make it flow uphill. Twice a day. Ok, fine, I don’t know how much I have to do with it. But water does flow uphill twice a day. This…
Serengeti Grazing Lessons Part V
In order to successfully to mimic nature, we need to look to nature. But not just any old nature, a really natural nature. That is why we are continuing our look at the grazing ecosystem of the Serengeti. That is…
Serengeti Grazing Lessons Part IV
It is Newton’s laws that have changed history more than the ideas of any other person. At least, that’s what I ‘m going to say this week. I might say something different next week. No one seems to argue with…