Entries by Rich Myers

Integrating Livestock with Crops Project: Electric Fences. Sheep In and Predators Out

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Montana State University’s three-year research project, “Impacts of Integrating Livestock into Cropping Systems on Soil Health and Crop Production,” has uncovered some interesting findings. Funded by Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (WSARE), and led by Research Associate Devon Ragen and her master-degree student, Trestin Benson, this research explored the benefits and challenges of incorporating […]

Integrating Livestock into Crop Production Project. Montana State University Research

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Montana State University’s three-year research project, “Impacts of Integrating Livestock into Cropping Systems on Soil Health and Crop Production,” has uncovered some interesting findings. Funded by Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (WSARE), and led by Research Associate Devon Ragen and her master-degree student, Trestin Benson, this research explored the benefits and challenges of incorporating […]

Integrating Livestock with Crops Project. Historical Perspective

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Montana State University’s three-year research project, “Impacts of Integrating Livestock into Cropping Systems on Soil Health and Crop Production,” has uncovered some interesting findings. Funded by Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (WSARE), and led by Research Associate Devon Ragen and her master’-degree student, Trestin Benson, this research explored the benefits and challenges of incorporating […]

Integrating Livestock with Crops Project: Livestock and Vegetables. A Close Fit

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Montana State University’s three-year research project, “Impacts of Integrating Livestock into Cropping Systems on Soil Health and Crop Production,” has uncovered some interesting findings. Funded by Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (WSARE) and led by Research Associate Devon Ragen and her master-degree student, Trestin Benson, this research explored the benefits and challenges of incorporating […]

Integrating Livestock with Crops Project: Why Not Use the Field as a Feedlot?

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Montana State University’s three-year research project, “Impacts of Integrating Livestock into Cropping Systems on Soil Health and Crop Production,” has uncovered some interesting findings. Funded by Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (WSARE), and led by Research Associate Devon Ragen and her master-degree student, Trestin Benson, this research explored the benefits and challenges of incorporating […]

Livestock Integration with Crops Project: Terminating Cover Crops. Sheep Can Do It!

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Montana State University’s three-year research project, “Impacts of Integrating Livestock into Cropping Systems on Soil Health and Crop Production,” has uncovered some interesting findings. Funded by Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (WSARE), and led by Research Associate Devon Ragen and her master-degree student, Trestin Benson, this research explored the benefits and challenges of incorporating […]

Integrating Livestock with Crops Project: Infiltration. Monitoring Soil Health

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Montana State University’s three-year research project, “Impacts of Integrating Livestock into Cropping Systems on Soil Health and Crop Production,” has uncovered some interesting findings. Funded by Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (WSARE), and led by Research Associate Devon Ragen and her masters-degree student, Trestin Benson, this research explored the benefits and challenges of incorporating […]

Allen Williams: To Graze or Not and How to Improve

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A sixth generation family farmer, Allen Williams owns a grass-fed operation in Mississippi and is a leading expert in forage and grazing management, grass-fed genetics and re-production, marketing, and the grass-fed market. In this video, he is speaking at the Columbia County Conservation District Soil Health Conference 2019 in Danville, Pennsylvania. This video is produced […]

High Tunnel Grapes – Grower Interview with Rex Barnhill

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In this video, we talk with grower Rex Barnhill about his takeaways from growing table grapes in his high tunnel for the past two years and his reflections on being involved in the High Tunnel Grape research project. University of Arkansas Horticulture Professor Dr. Elena Garcia interviews Mr. Barnhill and discusses the advantages and difficulties […]

Episode 108. A Conversation with Amigo Bob

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In this episode of Voices from the Field, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist Martin Guerena has a talk with “Amigo Bob” Cantisano. Bob is a pioneer in California organic agriculture, and he is well known as the founding organizer of the annual Ecological Farming Conference, which will celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2020. It is one […]