beef cattle

Saving Minnesota’s Grasslands: Conservation, Cattle & Community

August 13, 2014
Brian DeVore
agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Land Conservation, Loon Commons blog
beef cattle, Chippewa 10%, Chippewa River Watershed Project, DNR, Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund, Glacial Lakes Prairie Implementation Team, grasslands, invasive species, Land Stewardship Project, managed rotational grazing, Nature Conservancy, prairies, public lands grazing, Simon Lake, Simon Lake Challenge, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Wildlife Management Areas, wildlife refuges

It’s that age-old struggle: accepting a little short-term disturbance in the name of long-term stability. Dave Trauba regularly faces the challenge of explaining that tradeoff to hunters who visit the Lac Qui…
Mob Rule in Livestock Land

September 2, 2011
Brian DeVore
Food and Sustainable Agriculture
beef cattle, Chippewa 10%, grass, grazing, Greg Judy, Holistic Management, Land Stewardship Project, livestock, managed rotational grazing, mob grazing, pasture, profits from perennials, young farmers

What do you do when a resource becomes increasingly scarce? One option is to use it more efficiently. That’s a key point livestock producer Greg Judy is going to make Sept. 9-10…