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I think you should check the law because "fence out" usually means if you don't want livestock on your property, it is your responsibility to fence them out...NOT the owner of the livestock. Free pasture for you if the fence goes down, and they're responsible for fixing it...

You would probably be amazed to see the difference in plant profiles there between now and 1900. Here in far west Texas the oldtimers in their 80's claim the only places there was any brush 70 years ago was in the draws. Now brush, especially creosote and mesquite are matched only by bare...

No sense throwing money away being understocked, especially as things tend to run backwards. Stock it with other people's cattle and let them take the risk. Use part of the money for fences and infrastructure.

No matter what you do, if you don't change how you graze, it is just going to revert back. Look up Alejandro Carrillo and Fernando Falomir. Both have reclaimed large tracts of land through grazing alone. I'm not sure what you're calling Dove weed, but most weeds, including thistles are at...

Where is it that cheap? 1800 pound bales in far west Texas run $385 (mainly because of "hunting ranches" using it for deer feed.

The problem with raw milk was "milk fever" aka brucellosis. The only way to get it was from urine splashing into milk pail, which can't happen with milking machines. Lactose intolerance didn't come into being until after we started pasteurizing milk which actually destroys enzymes and proteins...

Anything but perfect weather. As long as you get 4-5" of rain timed right, you can keep building grass on the desert.

There's been recent research on how epigenetics determines what cattle choose to eat. They're just barely scratching the surface as they will add things to their diet just from changing up their stockmanship. Doesn't matter if I'm in South Dakota, California, Texas, Mexico, or Australia, they...

I love the interest in regenerative grazing, but think we've swung the pendulum of simplification too far in the wrong direction. Allan Savory predicted as much when I discussed it with him back in 2009. It seems like everyone and their pet monkey who attended a grazing seminar and were...

The pictures of the grass starting in the cow pies are areas he's still improving. The point I'm trying to make is that the "rules" are over generalized. The "rule" in desert country is giving 12 -18 months recovery time, yet grasses like Bermuda, Tabosa, and Alkali and Giant Sacaton may need to...

He isn't promoting Bermuda, it's just what is in the seed bank (and he doesn't grow or feed hay.) It's dominant, but there's also a couple of dozen other grasses. He's also been in a drought so severe, that its been killing cactus and mesquite. Less than 5" maximum for the last four years. He's...

They could graze all five kinds of grass, but they would have to adjust the timing of their rotations to be making a pass when each grass is at it's peak nutritional/palatability. A "rule" in grazing arid and semi arid places like Wyoming or Mexico is that you make one pass and give the pasture...

Thats just one area. They do the same thing in Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming where they have plenty of grass.

Weeds are just part of the plant succession which indicates what the soil fertility is. Work on the soil fertility (which is biological, not chemical) and the weed "problem" will take care of itself. Treat the symptoms chemically and you will always be dependant on the chemical.

I thought it was ludicrous when Kathy Voth started holding schools to teach cattle to eat weeds. Not because I thought cattle wouldn't eat them, but because cattle in my care were always eating weeds and brushes they supposedly wouldn't eat. I've had schools in 8 states, plus multiple...

There's things I haven't seen too, and I've made a bigger circle than most. I'm not entirely sure how cattle determine what to eat and what to avoid. There are actually quite a few plants which cattle not only used to eat, but that ranchers depended on for winter feed, which they avoid now. I...

Not sure where you're getting these rules such as "NEVER graze the forage shorter than 3 inches, and NEVER return to a pasture sooner than 28 days after removing the livestock" because grazing height and when to return are contextually dependant. Grazing height rules differ from species to...

Of course that may be a biased opinion because it's harder for them to market the milk they use for replacer. That said, soy is is high in erucic acid. Whether or not that actually causes damage depends on whether or not the study you read was performed by the soy industry or someone else...

Teacher would probably be thrown in jail today, but I had one who staged "shooting" a student in class. Of course the class panicked and went running out of the room. For some reason I went at the teacher and when he pointed the gun at me and said "You're next," I asked him how he was going to...