QUITMAN — Tony and LeVonna Uekman of Quitman are in the “consignment” business. Other farmers bring them their cattle “on consignment,” Tony said. He said they raise the steers or heifers, which are ...

STURGIS, S.D. — Decades back, brothers Ed and Rich Blair ran a 50-heifer herd on 700 acres. The land had been used for farming and for haying previously, but the Blairs set up a rotational grazing ...

PRODUCING palatable and nutritional silage as a key feed for livestock during the winter is not easy given Scotland’s unpredictable climate, but a dry weather window last year resulted in one of the ...

The application of summer patch burning to heal native rangeland may be best accomplished using rotational grazing, according to a range ecologist. The application of summer patch burning to heal ...

Increasing the production potential of pastures can be done with just a few changes in management, especially when transitioning from a continuous, permanent pasture system to one of rotational ...

Lambs run on a simple rotational grazing system at a Powys farm are on average gaining an additional 40g in daily liveweight compared with weights achieved in the previous set-stocking system. Sion ...

Sunn hemp’s vigorous growth makes it a great complement to cool-season forages, says Harley Naumann, University of Missouri forage physiologist. Naumann’s six-year research shows that the ...

Management Intensive Rotational Grazing (MIRG) is a BIG part of Prescribed Grazing Management. It’s a system of grazing in which ruminant and non-ruminant herds are regularly and systematically moved ...

A study by USDA’s Economic Research Service finds 40% of cow-calf operations use rotational grazing and less than half of them use intensive rotational grazing. Of the operations reporting using ...