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Rebuilding or replacing forage stands
Features, Forages, Livestock

Rebuilding or replacing forage stands

By evaluating current and past management practices, you can avoid repeat mistakes

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Before attempting to rejuvenate or replace pasture, we must evaluate the pasture or hay field that is in poor condition. Start by determining the plant species that are present and the number of plants per square foot. Collect information from 10 different locations within the pasture to get a good overview of populations. Also, record […] Read more
Cattle grazing in Manitoba. Electric fence is cheaper to install and maintain than typical barbed or net wire fences and holds livestock better once they’re trained to the fence.
Features, Grazing, Livestock

Grazing management and soil health, Part 2

A look at how to apply adaptive multi-paddock grazing to different, and constantly changing, contexts

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In part 1 of this topic, we discussed how following the six principles of soil health can improve the four ecosystem functions or processes which will also improve your soil and its productivity. Now let’s graze. There have been many names given to grazing methods. Some even argue about the use of names and if […] Read more
Prairie sage in central Saskatchewan.
Features, Grazing, Pasture

Grazing management and soil health

By adapting grazing practices that fit your context and by following the six soil health principles, you can improve the soil on your ranch

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I hope this title suggests that there is a definite causal link between grazing management and soil health. Nothing you do on grazing lands can improve soil health more than good grazing management. While growing up, I wanted to be a rancher because I liked cattle and the challenge of raising them profitably. I wanted […] Read more
A lab funded by the Canada Agricultural Partnership can generate a comprehensive soil health report for each site sampled.
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Benchmarking and building soil health

Understanding of the significance of what constitutes healthy soil has increased substantially in recent years

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When it comes to forages or foraging, what happens below ground is just as important as the biomass material above ground. Interest in soil has traditionally focused on chemical characteristics — including minerals such as nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, for fertilizer recommendations — or characteristics such as salinity and pH. Understanding of the significance of […] Read more
Feeding more forages and silage to cattle can give producers the ability to plant polycultures, the roots of which help increase soil biology.
Comment/Columns, From the Ground Up

No more baby steps

From the Ground Up with Steve Kenyon

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The light bulb did not get invented by incrementally increasing the brightness of the candle. This is a quote attributed to Oren Harari. What he is referring to is the fact that most breakthroughs do not come from aiming for incremental improvements. We need big steps that come from complete mindset changes. For example, using […] Read more
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From the Ground Up, Livestock

Kenyon: The job interview

From the Ground Up with Steve Kenyon

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GPR: Good Morning. Welcome to Greener Pastures Ranching. Thanks for taking the time to come in for this interview. AMF: Good morning. I was so excited to get your call. I’m sure you had a lot of resumés and a lot of great candidates apply for this job. GPR: We have multiple positions available so […] Read more
Salinity in central Saskatchewan, just off Highway 15.
Features, Forages

Managing soil salinity for the long haul

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Establishing perennial forages is one of the top recommended methods to manage saline soils for the long term

Growing up on a mixed farm in southern Alberta, Alan Iwaasa was no stranger to the costly headaches that saline soils could create. “There were certain land bases that just were poor,” Iwaasa recalls. “For a period of time, there was a lot of effort that was looking at levelling your land and putting in […] Read more
Steve Kenyon has five principles he follows that make up his regenerative grazing strategy.
From the Ground Up, Livestock

Regenerating grain land

From the Ground Up with Steve Kenyon

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I am not a grain farmer, and as many of you know, I do not like monocultures. I also don’t like tillage, or the use of synthetic fertilizer, or the overuse of chemicals. Some say that I am against grain farming. I would like to set the record straight. Our mission statement at Greener Pastures […] Read more
Robbie Hale of Maverick Livestock stands in the family’s cocktail crop near Hines Creek, Alta.
Crops, Features

Lessons learned growing cocktail crops

Despite an adverse start, cocktail crops have become a regular part of the Hale family’s crop rotation over the last six years

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It is a long, long way from Dallas, Texas to Hines Creek, Alta. But the distance did not deter Curt Hale’s grandfather and father from making the move to Alberta’s Peace Country. The Hale family calls their operation Maverick Livestock, an apt name, with a maverick being an unorthodox or independent-minded person. The pioneering spirit […] Read more
The cow is a big part of ranching, but she is only a part of it.
Features, From the Ground Up, Livestock

The mobile hotel

From the Ground Up with Steve Kenyon

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If you own your own business, you know one of the most difficult tasks is acquiring and holding onto good employees. We all know that it’s important to provide desirable working conditions to keep employees happy. We try our best here at Greener Pastures Ranching, but there is one other aspect that we work on […] Read more

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