The swath grazing setup

The swath grazing setup

Grazing with Steve Kenyon

Some people have said it is my cheap and lazy way to ranch. I like to think it is just the smarter way to ranch. I like to analyze production practices in order to reduce the labour requirements and lower the costs involved with each one. Whether I am planning a swath grazing or a […] Read more

Tkachyk bale grazes older pastures the winter before he breaks them.

A taste of drought

Techniques to extend the grazing season pay off for this grazier

Techniques to extend the grazing season pay off for this grazier

It’s the driest Randy Tkachyk can recall in his 20 years of farming the family’s 105-year-old farm near Sundown, Man. Situated near the borders of Ontario and the U.S. along the western edge of the Lake of the Woods ecoregion, the Sundown area typically receives about 20 inches of rain during the growing season. This […] Read more


Youth education is my main business

Grazing with Steve Kenyon

I was seven years old. I can still see my older brother and I sitting in lawn chairs at the top of the gravel road. We would jump up with excitement every time we saw dust in the distance. Every vehicle coming down the road was another potential customer for our pop stand. It was […] Read more

How much gain is left?

Grazing with Steve Kenyon: Don’t be fooled by how 
much grass is left

I sure have nothing to complain about this year when it comes to the weather. As a Canadian and a farmer, that is frustrating because that is what we do. A Canadian talks about the weather and a farmer likes to complain. If it were not for the weather, most of us would not even […] Read more


It is all in the handshake

Grazing with Steve Kenyon

I grew up in a small agriculture area with relatively low population density. You could see one, maybe two of your neighbour’s yardlights at night. It was very common to have the neighbour over helping with harvest or maybe we would be there helping with cattle. I grew up in a community of very down […] Read more

Plant posts not grass

Grazing with Steve Kenyon: That is the first step to improve pasture production

That is the first step to improve pasture production

At almost every seminar or school I teach about grass management, I get the question about pasture rejuvenation. “What grass seed should we plant to improve our pastures?” Of course this is because our industry is trained and addicted to treating symptoms. It is easier to apply a band-aid fix to a problem than it […] Read more


Never eat your dessert first

Never eat your dessert first

Grazing with Steve Kenyon: That's my cure for bloat

That’s my cure for bloat

I was home alone tonight and prepared myself a nice healthy supper. The problem was I was very hungry and my All Natural Grass-Fed Beef Stir Fry just would not cook quickly enough for my hunger bugs. No kids around and the homemade chocolate chip mint ice cream was calling out for me. Just a […] Read more

Ryan Kasko.

Taking care of customers and their cattle

That’s the motto that underpins Kasko Cattle Co.’s expansion over the past decade and a half

That’s the motto that underpins Kasko Cattle Co.’s 
expansion over the past decade and a half

Kasko Cattle Co. is proud to be marking its 15-year milestone. It’s no small feat for this young company considering the string of setbacks that have hit the Canadian beef industry since the Kasko family entered the custom cattle-feeding business in 1997. Yet, for every knock, the company has bounced back with a step forward. […] Read more


Keep a proactive cash flow

Grazing with Steve Kenyon

My busy season is officially over. We had a great year here at Greener Pastures. The main herd is still on dormant-season grass and will be switching over to bale grazing soon. The second herd is doing fine bale grazing and licking snow. I love winter. My bales are all set up and twines were […] Read more

A continuous flow system is used to avoid freeze-ups in winter.

Winter water at Greener Pastures

Grazing with Steve Kenyon

When winter sets in and all my water systems freeze up, what do I do for water? Well, I don’t chop ice, that’s for sure. That sounds too much like labour to me. And of course the risk of losing cattle through the ice seems to deter the practice here at Greener Pastures. I have […] Read more