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Entries Tagged as 'pasture'

Winter Grazing

December 31st, 2014 · No Comments · farming

Our animals aren’t deterred by freezing temperatures. They’ll continue to graze as long as there is grass to eat. I only wish I’d been able to save more grass for the winter. Part of our management challenge is finding a balance between the number of animals we raise and the ability of our pastures to […]

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Coping with Unscheduled Winter

November 16th, 2014 · 2 Comments · Weather

As if we didn’t have enough to do, an unseasonable blast of arctic weather has complicated matters here on the farm. We still have 50 broiler chickens on pasture that we had planned to begin processing this week. But we can’t run our chicken plucker when temperatures fall below freezing. On Friday we woke up […]

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Happy to Graze

October 6th, 2014 · No Comments · farming

Our animals moved to the upper pasture for the third time this season and they couldn’t be happier. Emily, our Jersey heifer, was so excited she danced around the paddock, literally kicking up her heels. Do cows experience joy? Apparently so. August and September were very dry in our part of Upstate New York–the sixth […]

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