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VT Pasture Network: January 2012
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News, events and observations about grass-based farming in Vermont and the northeast. Wednesday, January 11, 2012. Temple Grandin Autism Presentation Saturday January 21 at 7 pm. And we've set up an online rideshare board, for both the. And for just the. Tuesday, January 3, 2012. VT Grazing and Livestock Conference January 20 and 21. Happy New Year, and it's time to start thinking about the next grazing season. Too soon? The time to learn and think and plan is NOW. Well, soon. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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VT Pasture Network: Brown Bag Weeds Webinar with Kathy Voth
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News, events and observations about grass-based farming in Vermont and the northeast. Thursday, May 10, 2012. Brown Bag Weeds Webinar with Kathy Voth. Our terrific partner Kathy Voth did her first official public webinar today! She shared her knowledge and experience in a one-hour overview at lunch. Kathy and a VT Devon steer making friends. If you'd like to catch the webinar, we recorded it! As Kathy encouraged in the webinar, she is available to help you teach your own animals to eat weeds!
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VT Pasture Network: February 2012
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News, events and observations about grass-based farming in Vermont and the northeast. Friday, February 24, 2012. Teaching VT Sheep to Eat Bedstraw. Kathy Voth and Kimberly Hagen. News from the field! Here's farmer and grant participant Kimberly Hagen teaching her sheep to eat smooth bedstraw, a notorious plant in Vermont. Think your animals won't eat it? This technique has worked on all different types of ruminant animals, with differently sized herds and with different weeds. It can work for you. At the...
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VT Pasture Network: Dairy Heifers Eat Weeds, too!
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News, events and observations about grass-based farming in Vermont and the northeast. Wednesday, August 1, 2012. Dairy Heifers Eat Weeds, too! Our work with Kathy Voth and learning to view weeds as alternative forages has taught us many things, and one is that animals can eat more things than we think they can. Kathy and Julie talking weeds and heifers. Here are some videos from project participant Julie Wolcott's farm in Fairfield:. Dairy heifers trying thistle. Dairy heifers trying milk weed.
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VT Pasture Network: May 2012
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News, events and observations about grass-based farming in Vermont and the northeast. Friday, May 18, 2012. Grazing Experiments on a Central VT Farm. 618 loves her chervil! As a person working in the Pasture Program for over seven years, I expect that readers might wonder what happens on my own farm. Yes, I graze animals too! For the last several years, I've been focused on sheep and feeder pigs, with occasional poultry. I'll be back on poultry again now that I finished grad school. Monday, May 14, 2012.
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VT Pasture Network: August 2011
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News, events and observations about grass-based farming in Vermont and the northeast. Tuesday, August 30, 2011. I hope all of you out there are OK and that you and your animals have made it through without injury or worse. I'm starting to get questions about how to handle stored feed, corn, pasture and hay that has been flooded. Thankfully, there's an excellent resource from UVM Extension on the subject at:. Http:/ www.uvm.edu/pss/vtcrops/articles/Flooded Crops UVMExtFS 2011.pdf. Thursday, August 25, 2011.
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VT Pasture Network: May 2011
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News, events and observations about grass-based farming in Vermont and the northeast. Tuesday, May 17, 2011. Biomass, Meet Pasture.Pasture, Biomass. Through the course of the project, which is now wrapping up (you can read project reports at www.uvm.edu/forestcarbon. Yeah, I thought so too. For the direct-sale marketers out there, this will also seem like a page torn out of your books: high end saw timber highly subsidizes the ability to provide wood chips or lower-expense biomass at "cheap" prices. ...
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VT Pasture Network: Teaching VT Sheep to Eat Bedstraw
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News, events and observations about grass-based farming in Vermont and the northeast. Friday, February 24, 2012. Teaching VT Sheep to Eat Bedstraw. Kathy Voth and Kimberly Hagen. News from the field! Here's farmer and grant participant Kimberly Hagen teaching her sheep to eat smooth bedstraw, a notorious plant in Vermont. Think your animals won't eat it? This technique has worked on all different types of ruminant animals, with differently sized herds and with different weeds. It can work for you.
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VT Pasture Network: November 2011
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News, events and observations about grass-based farming in Vermont and the northeast. Monday, November 28, 2011. From time to time I run across some amazing resources and breadth of grazing experience shared by farmers who are also excellent writers. Dave Forgey is one of these people whom we all can learn from. As the days grow darker and you all think about professional development readings for next season.check this out:. Dave Forgey's farm web site and writing. Feel free to contact the Pasture Program.
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VT Pasture Network: September 2011
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News, events and observations about grass-based farming in Vermont and the northeast. Monday, September 19, 2011. Additional Flooding Resources for Pastures and Forages. Extension Agronomist Sid Bosworth has updated his web site. With a bunch of flood-related materials, including a new handout Managing Flood Damaged Crops from Tropical Storm Irene. Friday, September 16, 2011. Free soil testing of flooded fields. A forage handout with updated recommendations is currently being completed and will be shared...
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