Looking for On-farm Diversification? Consider Pastured Pigs
…and I thought I would share my favorite three. First, it provides our customers better-quality meat, both in taste and nutritional content, as well as in a community sense. In…
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Episode 246. She’s Raising Sheep: New Zealand Shepherd Bev Trowbridge
…starting with site-adapted sheep (She raises majestic and meaty Wiltshire Horns.) and joining a network of like-minded people who can learn together. Listen in to discover what herding sheep and…
New Toolkit: How to Reduce Synthetic Fertilizer Use
…NCAT. Nina and her husband Jeremy own and operate a small sustainable livestock operation in the Ozarks hills of Arkansas, where they raise meat goats, cattle, hogs, and poultry. They…
Nina Prater
…a small sustainable livestock operation in the Ozarks hills of Arkansas, where they raise meat goats, cattle, hogs, and poultry. They utilize adaptive grazing methods to build soil health in…
Marketing Manure: A Value-Added Product for Small Operations
Green gold. Photo: Courtesy of 7MSN Ranch By Lisa Page, NCAT Agriculture Specialist Abstract Marketing manure can be a beneficial, low-risk way for livestock producers to manage animal waste on…
Companion Planting & Botanical Pesticides: Concepts & Resources
Buckwheat (left) suppresses weeds and attracts beneficial insects that can help protect brassicas (right). Photo: Andy Pressman, NCAT By George Kuepper, NCAT Agriculture Specialist, and Mardi Dodson Updated April 2016…
Coccidiosis: Symptoms, Prevention, and Treatment in Sheep, Goats, and Calves
…Vanguru, G. Kannan, D.A. Moore, T.H. Terrill, and B. Kouakou. 2009. Influence of dietary condensed tannins from sericea lespedeza on bacterial loads in gastrointestinal tracts of meat goats. Livestock Science….
Pasture, Rangeland, and Adaptive Grazing
…parts of the country. Small ruminants can also add value to a farm by providing meat and milk products to growing ethnic groups that seek these traditional foods. Using small…
Nutrient Cycling in Pastures
Cattle grazing a diverse array of pasture forage in a rotational grazing system in Arkansas. Photo: Nina Prater, NCAT By Dave Scott and Nina Prater, NCAT Agriculture Specialists Abstract This…
Peaches: Organic and Low-Spray Production
…with young meat birds, are moved into olive and stonefruit orchards at opportune times to clean downed fruit and bugs. They also clean nearby wooded areas of bugs and pests….