Pasture management

How to assess, prepare, plant grass seed and manage a pasture for cattle or sheep. The answers are here, along with the equipment you need.

With proper pasture management, both plants and animals will thrive. Here’s how to provide the best pasture for homestead livestock.

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Our starting point in rotational grazing was from a free range paradigm. Now I see the error of years of continuous grazing and that mindset. Any agrarian worth his salt will slowly realize that …

Silvopasture is a type of agroforestry. It combines timber management practices as well as pasture management and livestock management.

Writer: Kay Ledbetter, 806-677-5608, skledbetter@ag.tamu.edu Contact: Tim Steffens, 806-651-2781, tsteffens@wtamu.edu AMARILLO – What a pasture should look like – whether a waving sea of grass or one with diverse vegetation – depends on the cattleman’s final goal and actions taken before rain falls, said a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service range specialist. “With the rains... Read More →

This webinar, featuring Dr. Kris Nichols, focuses on cover crops and grazing as ways to stimulate carbon flow to soil biology, and how using these practices can build resilience to weather, pest and disease issues, and increase overall profitability.

Richard Teague provides more insight into sustainable agroecosystems, focussing on cropping using regenerative agricultural principles