Re: Time to Learn How(Grass farming)
Greg & Lei Gunthorp (hey4hogs@kuntrynet.com)
Mon, 24 May 1999 08:41:17 -0500
I received a few emails asking about information on raising animals on
pasture. Here is my suggestions if you are interested in grass
farming or management intensive grazing, I
would recommend ATTRA, The Leopold Center, The Stockman Grass Farmer
Magazine, Small Farm Today Magazine, www.grassfarmer.com, graze-l and
graze-r listserves, and SARE. All of these have web sites besides the
Stockman Grass Farmer. I would suspect that Ann Clark and others have good
sources of information for beginning grass farmers. There is a very
distinct learning curve to raising animals sucessfully on pasture. Those
that can not put a whole system of genetics, nutrition, forage species,
fencing, water, marketing, etc will not suceed. Also, I think it takes a
completely different mindset that the "average" american farmer. I'm also
convince by pure definition it requires low input including low debt
(relatively speaking) to make
it work. To make pasture work and work well we have to be able to give up
most of the equipment that rusts, rots, and depreciated.
Best of luck,
Greg Gunthorp
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