Re: Time to Learn How(Grass farming)

Bargyla Rateaver (brateaver@earthlink.net)
Mon, 24 May 1999 21:29:07 -0700

Odd how no one mentions the work of Newman Turner, who really did prove without
any doubt by anyone in England in his day, how to be truly successful with
grazing

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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