Oh yeah, there’s some risk, too By: Loretta Sorensen Cattlemen who graze wheat will know the basics of their strategy remain the same from year to year. However, with all the variables involved, no two plans will be exactly the same. “Weather, grain prices, the amount of fall forage accumulated in a wheat field and many other aspects of the practice […]
Pasture Management
Keepers of the Grass
Your Future As A Rangeland Manager By: Loretta Sorensen Students who consider the great outdoors to be the perfect office location may want to contemplate pursuit of a Range Management degree. Susan Edinger Marshall, Rangeland Resources and Wildland Soils professor at Humboldt State’s Forestry and Wildland Resources Department in Arcata, CA, says working as a […]
Getting Intense
Moving cell-grazed cattle at just the right time to support plant recovery is a winning strategy for this Nebraska rancher By: Loretta Sorensen Long before he heard Allan Savory talk about holistic management, John Ravenscroft was interested in soil conservation. He was using a four-pasture grazing system on his 30,000 acres of western Nebraska grasslands. […]
The Sensitive Sage
by Loretta Sorensen Tough and hardy, this iconic western rangeplant plays an important sustainable role Declining sage grouse populations have concerned sportsmen since the 1930s. In spite of management efforts, sage grouse populations have continued to decline since that time. But that reality doesn’t lessen the importance of managing sage grouse and the sagebrush they’re so dependent on today. […]
