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Adaptive Grazing in Silvopasture (This Ain’t Your Grandpa’s Grazing!)

I had a great conversation recently with a longstanding silvopasture farmer which highlighted some of the management decisions that will need to be made with the systematic integration of trees into grazing systems. In short, as ecosystems become more complex so does...

Silvopasture Economic Model

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For those who want to geek out on the numbers, we’ve been working on an Excel spreadsheet. The purpose of it is to reasonably and conservatively predict the value of silvopasture to a farm based on the value of shade and feed produced by the addition of trees to...

January 2024 Nursery Update

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I wrote a year ago about where we were at with propagation of improved honey locust, which you can read about here. Now I want to catch folks up on where we are with the nursery in general after another year of trials and experimentation. Honey Locust Let’s start...

Mulberry Feed Value

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I never weighed any pigs at the beginning and close of the mulberry season, but think I can safely say that a pig weighing 100 pounds at the start would weigh 200 pounds at the close. … Three-fourths to the mulberries is safe calculation of the gain. I have had...