After an early season snowstorm in November 2014, Troy Bishopp had an epiphany that changed the way he approaches tending cattle. The longtime grass farmer and grazing advocate, who had recently ...
Environmentalists are trying to cut two federal land management agencies off at the pass over expansion of grazing rights.
Secrets regarding the spread of the world's grasslands — which proved vital to countless species of grazing animals and may have influenced humanity's evolution — have now been uncovered in fossil ...
The idea with targeted grazing is to focus on landscape and vegetation goals, according to Dan Macon, the UC Cooperative Extension livestock and natural resources advisor for Placer, Nevada, Sutter ...
Researchers have discovered that grazing animals such as deer and rabbits are actually helping to spread plant disease -- quadrupling its prevalence in some cases -- and encouraging an invasion of ...
In a leader-follower grazing system, animals with different forage needs pass through a pasture in succession, using the land more efficiently without destroying its ability to support livestock.
Many familiar grains today, like quinoa, amaranth, and the millets, hemp, and buckwheat, all have traits that indicate that they coevolved to be dispersed by large grazing mammals. During the ...
In a recent presentation, titled Managed Sheep Grazing Can Improve Soil Quality and Carbon Sequestration at Solar Photovoltaic Sites, researchers from Temple University investigated the effects of ...
Today is a great day to be in the office — as I sit here, writing this column, I’m watching it rain! This rain is our first significant moisture event since half an inch fell in early April. Up to ...
"We need and want to grow America's energy capacity — but not at the expense of our best farmland or ... agricultural ...
A Tennessee solar developer is betting that cattle-grazing and solar panels can coexist — and benefit farmers as well as the electric grid.
As nature would have it, sheep graze, and grass grows. Having a herd of his own, Vallejo resident Luiz Ahumada made the move ...