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Mentoring the mentors
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Mentoring the mentors

Opportunity awaits farmers who want to learn how to develop and plan an advanced grazing system

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I started farming on my own back in 1996. I was fresh out of college and had a huge passion for grazing. I was very lucky to have a lot of great mentors who were patient enough to put up with my never-ending questions. I was eager and I just could not get enough education […] Read more
Photo taken in July 2021 on land Kenyon has been managing since 1999. It takes time to repair the land, but regenerative grazing can create resilience to drought.
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The drought of 2021

From the Ground Up with Steve Kenyon

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Well, that was one for the books. It will be referred to for years to come as the drought of 2021. I “herd” it was a one-in-100-year drought in my area. Hay production was about a quarter of normal. Pastures browned off in July. Dugouts and water sources are dry all over the place. We […] Read more
The extreme heat cattle endured this past summer from soaring temperatures was a perfect example of potential water stress.
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Dealing with livestock stressors

From the Ground Up with Steve Kenyon

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A happy cow is a healthy cow. I can’t remember the first time, but I have heard that saying many times over the years. On my ranch, I have found it very beneficial to keep the livestock as stress-free as possible. When we talk about animal stress, most people think about animal handling when processing […] 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
Sometimes it’s easier to talk with a coach when the going gets tough. Do you have a person in your life that you can turn to?
From the Ground Up, Livestock

Riding the dragon

From the Ground Up with Steve Kenyon

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That sounds tough. All fire and brimstone, a knight in shining armour riding a beast into battle to rescue the princess. You can’t get more manly than that, right? I am that tough guy and I am proud to say that I have ridden “the dragon” many times. Let me explain. I grew up with […] Read more
Regeneratively grazing recycles nutrients to the soil.
From the Ground Up, Livestock

It ain’t pretty

From the Ground Up with Steve Kenyon

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You may have heard me say this before. A monoculture is ugly, no matter how pretty it looks. This constant drive to manage monoculture cropping has us in a downward spiral of dead soils and added inputs. It is costing us dearly. Nature rarely relies on only one species in an environment. Even a hay […] Read more
When you have a lot of standing water on land you can bet you’ll have a lot of mosquitoes, and it’s hard to find a better control for these blood-sucking pests than the dragonfly.
From the Ground Up, Livestock

Building biodiversity on agricultural lands

From the Ground Up with Steve Kenyon

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Nature works in whole systems. There are millions of symbiotic relationships that coexist in a single ecosystem. Yet every ecosystem also interacts and relies on the other ecosystems around it. The aquatic ecosystem has a dynamic interaction with the riparian area ecosystem which interacts with the uplands ecosystem which relates to the woodland ecosystem. We […] Read more
Winter water for livestock
From the Ground Up, Livestock

Winter water for livestock

From the Ground Up with Steve Kenyon

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We have our fair share of drastic weather here in Alberta. In our environment, we can have temperature swings of about 85 C between winter and summer. I have seen a 45-degree shift in a single day. It went from 10 C and dropped to -35 C overnight. These temperature swings are a lot harder […] Read more
“The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.” – Aristotle.
From the Ground Up, Livestock

Mind-blowing moments

From the Ground Up with Steve Kenyon

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I have been asked numerous times, “Where did you get your education from?” My response is always, “Academia does not have a monopoly on knowledge.” Just to clear the air, I do not have a university degree, but here I am, teaching about agriculture. My working knowledge on regenerative agriculture has come from the hundreds […] Read more
Farmers are the quintessential ‘jack of all trades,’ but continually adding more to your plate can create chaos if it becomes too much to manage.
From the Ground Up, Livestock

Mental capacity

From the Ground Up with Steve Kenyon

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Are you a “glass half-full” or “half-empty” kind of person? Or maybe your cup runneth over like me? That is me if you were to look inside my mind. It is always overflowing. I only have so much mental capacity. I think we all do to a point. My mind can only hold so much […] Read more

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