Research shows strategic winter feeding disperses manure nutrients better than traditional sacrifice lots, improving soil ...

Feeding cattle can be a labor intensive process, and research at Central Grasslands Research Extension Center in Streeter, North Dakota, provides some guidance on practices that can ease the time ...

Rotating cows through bale paddocks saves work and fuel, and it builds soil. Resides In: Kief, North Dakota Raylene grew up on a dairy and beef farm at Kief, North Dakota. After graduating college in ...

WHITE, South Dakota — Meet John and Sharon Leiferman: cow-calf producers in their mid-60s, blazing a snow trail toward their 70s, innovating with a low-labor technique called “bale grazing.” In 1991, ...

Last winter, Van Mansheim of Colome, South Dakota, fed his 450-head beef herd without starting his tractor. "I hear many producers talk about how they're gonna go do chores for four hours and five ...

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Bale grazing allows livestock to return excess nutrients to the soil. Reduce your feed bill and maximize grazing days by incorporating bale grazing, interseeding, and other fall pasture management ...

Livestock farmers considering a switch from winter housing to outwintering and bale grazing should ensure they factor in the costs of changing system when making their decision. This is the advice of ...

Howling winter winds, driving snow and getting a frozen tractor started to feed cattle takes a daily toll on ranch families. To alleviate some of the stress, more Dakota ranchers today are turning the ...

Laura and Justin Davie showed off their bale-grazing wintering system at a Lower Aparima Catchment Group "whitebait and wintering" tour stop at their sheep, beef and dairy grazing farm Longview in ...

Long-term research suggests cattle can often rebuild degraded pasture more effectively than steel and diesel, says a ...