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All, Happy Spring to you! In walking and admiring the growing grass, I am dismayed to see how much the prickly pear is increasing on our back 40; larger patches, and new patches. How do you all deal with this? My sheep are not grazing it. Thanks for any tips! I'm in Northwest Arkansas, and...

All, A livestock owner wants to expand and locate land within an hour of his place for a lease; how do you recommend finding that? He's checking with his NRCS agent, county Extension agent, the local Farmer's Cooperative, the sale barn, Farm Service Agency, Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist...

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2023-07-17/millan-millan-and-the-mystery-of-the-missing-mediterranean-storms/ I am not sure where this goes on the forum but this is a really interesting article and speaks to the importance of land and soil and vegetation. What to do with this knowledge...

Here in Arkansas, we are getting pretty dry and were waiting for our Green Graze (sorghum sudangrass) to be ready to graze. So we were super happy that our wonderful neighbors invited us to bring the flock over to their land to graze. My neighbor mowed lanes down the slope through the woods so...

I'll post in "Events", too, but check out https://foodanimalconcernstrust.org/webinars and register now to attend "Grazing for Resilience--Bouncing Forward from Catastrophic Events". This will be taught by Justin Morris and Linda Poole and it will be informative and interesting. We'll post a...

https://mnbwsr.medium.com/rotational-grazing-revives-prairie-ef2ec0d57856 Great article!

I am hopping on here to say that I am a member of the American Consortium for Small Ruminant Parasite Control, and if you are having issues with parasites, they have likely got the answers! I am happy to be your tour guide. I have raised sheep since I was a young girl in MO, and this is a...