Greg & Lei Gunthorp wrote:
> 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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