Tag: pasture
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Dairy Heifer Grazing: Scaling Regenerative Dairy Systems for the Win-Win…Win
Raising replacement dairy heifers on well-managed pastures can improve soil health, water quality, and biodiversity, while reducing input costs, improving animal health and performance, and supporting viable dairy enterprises.
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How we shape a place: A farm kid’s journey home
Take a moment to picture your favorite day. This could be a day you already experienced, perhaps a wedding or graduation ceremony. Or it could be a hypothetical perfect day,…
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Dairy farmers share opinions on natural resources, labor issues
What do dairy farmers really think? More than 600 Wisconsin dairy farm owners took a survey in 2023, delving into their thoughts on policies related to natural resources and labor.…
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Pine River Learning Hub Begins to Reimagine Landscape
Could the Pine River watershed produce food in a way that doesn’t cause pollutants to run off into the lakes? Could farmers find a way to make a living and…
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Getting Beyond Yield: A Broader View of Agriculture
“Why do we engage in the practice of agriculture?” is a central thesis of Mark Bittman’s Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A history of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal. This not-as-rhetorical-as-you’d-think question…
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Grazing Network Thriving in Northwest Wisconsin
When Paul Daigle, an organizer in Grassland 2.0’s Cloverbelt Learning Hub and longtime grazing consultant, pulled into the parking lot at Shell Lake Community Center, it was overflowing. And he…
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Pastures as Potential Pollinator Habitat
Story by Skye Bruce When you think of pastures, what do you see in your mind’s eye? Perhaps a field of grasses, speckled with cows, and maybe some clover? As…
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Thinking as a Community
Grassland 2.0’s Summer Meeting Recap By Greta Landis “Until we build visions and models for the future, we won’t know where we are going, or how to chart our course…
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Dairy Needs Real Innovation
William D. Hoard’s enlightened understanding of the importance of livestock to soil health, coupled with his courageous advocacy work, helped pull Wisconsin agriculture from the depths of despairing wheat production…
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Back to his grassroots: Jacob Marty returns to family land with new vision for agriculture
As a dairy farm kid from southwest Wisconsin, Jacob Marty had no desire to return to his family’s farm. He was set on attending UW-Stevens Point and pursuing a career…
