A global study has revealed the conditions under which non-native plants thrive in the world's many dryland regions and the factors that limit their spread. Using data from 98 study sites across 25 ...

Using two years of data from summer grazing at the Livestock and Forage Centre of Excellence, Master of Science candidate Cassidy Sim is looking at how well new forage varieties persist when grazed at ...

A line of cows is the best treatment for your pasture. With a mob of cows, a paddock system, high-tensile wire, and electric fencing, you can cut hay expenses, improve soil and pasture health, and ...

Management-intensive grazing — a term coined by May, Idaho, rancher and educator Jim Gerrish — has been slow to catch on, but proponents such as Hungate believes it’s time is coming, as range land ...

“Efficient forage management and utilization is important to the profitability of a livestock operation,” says Patrick Davis, University of Missouri Extension livestock field specialist. The best way ...

Managed intensive grazing builds fertile soil by pumping carbon into the ground. Is grass-fed beef better? Eating grass-fed beef isn’t just some affectation. The meat is healthier, and the perennial ...

As stewards for much of Britain’s most marginal land but also its most iconic landscapes, upland farmers are both the most vulnerable to Brexit and the great hope for delivering some of the more ...

An intensive winter grazing management plan is the key for farmers to make sure they are getting the best environmental outcome with a high-risk activity. On 1 November, new intensive winter grazing ...

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 ...

The Otago Regional Council’s annual series of farmer workshops for intensive winter grazing (IWG) to promote good management practices gets underway from next week, with six workshops scheduled across ...

Intensive winter grazing practices have improved but more effort needs to go into compliance and monitoring activities by regional councils, a new report has found. When Environment Minister David ...