Of course Flack’s approach is anti-feedlot, but she doesn’t believe it’s enough to simply turn animals out on the same patch of grass season after season. “Rotational Grazing,” in which livestock is ...

Four Wagyu cows on the ranch on the picturesque Genesee Valley Ranch. Nestled against the Sierra Nevada in Northern California, Genesee Valley Ranch is as pretty as a postcard. Mountains covered in ...

AMARILLO -- What a pasture should look like -- whether a waving sea of grass or one with diverse vegetation -- depends on a cattleman's final goal and actions taken before rain falls. "With the rains ...

PUKWANA, S.D. — For 32 years Larry Wagner has focused on implementing rotational grazing practices on his ranch near Pukwana, South Dakota. As a board member of the South Dakota Grassland Coalition, ...

Few agribusinesses or governments regulate the types of plants that farmers use in their pastures to feed their livestock, according to an international team of researchers that includes one plant ...

Cows, along with sheep, goats, deer, antelope, bison, buffalo, moose, elk, and reindeer, are all ruminants. These are mammals ...

Few field studies have attempted to relate effects of actual livestock grazing on soil and plant water status. The present study was initiated to determine the effects of periodic defoliations by ...

Scott Mwiti at his farm in Maara, Tharaka Nithi where he has planted brachiaria grass to feed his dairy cattle. [Jeckonia Otieno, Standard] Brachiaria grass has proved to be a better alternative ...

Researchers head to Kenya to unlock the weaknesses of invasive buffelgrass to combat it here in Texas. Left image: Texas A&M Agrilife Extention. Right image: The University of Texas at Austin.