Resource Category: Livestock

Hear from a panel of experts about the current situation with HPAI in the Mid-Atlantic region.

We gathered small meat producers, processors, and policy-makers for a continuing conversation about how to build capacity in the local supply chain.

Get a veterinarian’s perspective on the nutritional needs of dairy cows.

What are the soil samples, field management records, and first-hand experiences from 100+ farms telling us about soil health?

Starting or growing a creamery enterprise can be a promising strategy for realizing financial viability in a challenging market. It’s also a big investment and can hold significant risk.

We used a whole-farm model to evaluate environmental footprints of all-grass, grass supplemented with grain, and confinement dairy production systems in the temperate climate of the northeastern U.S.

Per dollar spent, improving agricultural practices is one of our best investments toward clean and safe water.

Establishing biosecurity protocols on your farm helps keep animals healthy by preventing the spread of pathogens—even in the muddiest of pastures!

Learn about the pitfalls and rewards of raising pigs on pasture in rotation with other crops, including strategies for feed, bedding, fencing, shelter, pasture management, and crop rotation.  

This worksheet is a starting point for benchmarking your pastured livestock farm’s land and feed efficiency.

What would it take to make pastured systems the mainstream model of animal agriculture? And how might scaling up affect land use and the environment?

What makes a good grass-fed cow? Learn about the genetics and breeding for the grass-fed animal.

How does grain affect rumen development in the pre-weaned calf?

Through our Soil Health Benchmark Study, we’re discovering soil health problems farmers are facing. During this webinar, we review several common soil health challenges and explore how farmers are working to fix them.

A farmer considers how he can improve efficiency—and therefore profit—on his third-generation pastured livestock farm.

They say “What gets measured, gets managed.” Given that there is a lot to manage on a working farm, effective record-keeping tools are essential to the success of any farm business.

The economics and logic behind management decisions on a third-generation dairy farm.