I had a really nice visit today from Chad Cochrane, our local District Conservationist for the Natural Resources Conservation Service. We took a walk in the pouring rain and talked about all our conservation concerns (fencing off a seasonal stream, controlling erosion on a hillside, dealing with soil impact in high use areas, etc.). Chad [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Soaking up Advice
Posted in Farm Business, tagged Conservation, Environment, NRCS on January 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »
E.coli Saga
Posted in Farming Philosophy, Opinion, tagged E.coli, grass-fed beef on January 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
E.coli still remains prominent in the news and recalls of product seem to be happening all too often. What is being done to remedy this? An article written in the NY Times last December, After Delays, Vaccine to Counter Bad Beef Is Being Tested , describes how the meat industry is testing a new cattle [...]
Cows Know Best
Posted in Farming Philosophy, tagged grass-fed beef, Holistic Grazing Management on January 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Cows have a natural ability to find the right forage they need to stay healthy. The only problem is that they need certain minerals that just aren’t present in my soil. For example, no species of plant will give them the iodine they need if iodine is not present in the soil. So I have [...]
Choosing Natural Food
Posted in Farming Philosophy, tagged grass-fed beef, Greg Judy, Holistic Grazing Management on January 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I posted earlier about visiting Greg Judy’s farm. Greg’s pastures are so dense, he claims that his cattle will graze even through two feet of snow. Recently, I was excited to see a bit of snow-grazing on my own place. I have a small amount of stockpiled pasture where the forage was pretty thick before [...]
