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Grazing

• Transitioning Organic Cows On Pasture
  By Karen Hoffman, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service with some additions by Rick Kersbergen UMaine Cooperative Extension
  Added April 6, 2011. MORE >
  
  
• Thinking About Frost Seeding?
  By Dr. Darrell Emmick
  Added March 9, 2011. MORE >
  
  
• Sizing Up Pastures
  By Dr. Hubert Karreman
  Added January 17, 2011. MORE >
  
  
• 10 Steps to Calculate Dry Matter Intake
  from Pasture---It’s Not So Difficult!
  Added September, 2010. MORE >
  
  
• Maintaining Healthy, Productive Pastures
  Added July, 2010. MORE >
  
  
• Educated Cows Eat Weeds
  Added June 5, 2010. If you’re tired of spending time and money to manage the same weeds year after year, here’s some good news. The solution may already be grazing in your pasture! Teach them to eat weeds. MORE >
  
  
• Diet Selection & Grazing Behavior
  by Kathy Soder, USDA-ARS, University Park, PA
  Added October 1, 2009. MORE >
  
  
• Climate Policy for Agriculture that Works:
  Ensuring that America’s Organic Farmers are Part of the Solution
  By Meredith Niles, Cool Foods Campaign Coordinator, Center for Food Safety
  Added August 1, 2009. MORE >
  
  
• Plant Biodiversity
  Livestock Farmacy and Pantry
  By Jerry Brunetti
  Added July 1, 2009. MORE >
  
  
• (Almost) Year Round Grazing in the Northeast
  Added August 9, 2008. Mary-Howell and Klaas Martens of Lakeview Organic Grain in Penn Yan, NY, outline how you can establish a balanced rotational pasture system that will allow you to feed your cows almost year 'round, and buy less of that expensive organic grain. MORE >
  
  
• Strategies For Extending The Grazing Season
  Added August 3, 2008. We are all hoping that the grazing season lasts at least another 80 days; the longer we can stall the need to start digging into our stored feeds the better. Dr. Heather Darby, UVM Extention has written a very useful article on extend the grazing season through stockpiling feed or planting fall annuals for grazing. Now is the time to put these plans into action. MORE >
  
  
• Molasses Makes Milk and Money!
  An Alternative to High-priced Grain
  Added July 29, 2008. It’s no secret to anybody in the dairy industry that grain prices are currently high, both organic and conventional. The multiple reasons for it include everything from floods to ethanol to the laws of supply and demand. The question everybody is asking is “what can we do?” Learn more >
  
  
• Methane Production in Grassfed Livestock
  Added March 13, 2009. Learn more >
  
  

• Ecological Control of Pasture Flies, by Fay Benson, Cornell Cooperative Extension.
  Added May, 2008.
  
  
• Why Feed Supplemental Protein to a Cow on Pasture? by Darrell Emmick– August 2007
  
  
• Measuring 30% DM from Pasture, by Lisa McCrory
  
  
• Social Implications of Management Intensive Rotational Grazing, by UW-Madison - January 2005
  
  
• Pasture proves superior for North Carolina dairyman, by Chris Bickers, August 2004
  
  
• Grazing is Good for the Environment, Right? by John Thurgood, 2004
  
  
• No-Bloat Legume A Welcome Alternative for Northeast Pastures,
  by Heather Darby, 2003
  
  
• Are Grass-fed Meats and Milk Good for my Health? By Sarah Flack – February 2003
  
  
• Confused about Fat? Choose Grassfed! By Jo Robinson – November 2002
  
  
• Water, Grass & Livestock: An Annotated Bibliography of Riparian Grazing, October 2002
  
  
• Butterfat and Pasture by Bill Casey – July 2002
  
  
• The Northeast Grazing Guide, By Northeast Pasture Research and Extension Consortium: A website providing access to research summaries, extension resources and links to other grazing websites.
  
  
• University of Vermont Pasture and Grazing Management Website