profits from perennials

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…
Stripping Erosion Control to its Bare Essentials

June 25, 2011
Brian DeVore
Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Water
Chippewa 10%, climate change, erosion, Land Stewardship Project, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Matt Helmers, Matt Liebman, Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge, perennials, praries, profits from perennials, row crops, STRIPs, working farmland

While walking through a knee-high prairie planted on a central Iowa hillside Tuesday, I happened to look down. Trapped amongst all that vegetation was an impressive amount of rich, black glacial soil,…