Recommended resources for regenerative graziers!

[Linda Poole]

You might use this checklist to consider and prioritize next steps on your journey with regenerative grazing. These are just a few links to useful information from among a universe of options, so let us know if there are other resources you'd like to recommend to the Soil for Water community! Post a reply here with your input, and thanks for chiming in!

Build your management knowledge​

☐ Soil Health Workbook - Developed by Eva Stricker, PhD, and Linden Schneider, MS
☐ Rangeland Health and Planned Grazing Field Guide – Kirk Gadzia and Nathan Sayre
☐ A Good Road Lies Easy on the Land - Water Harvesting from Low-Standard Rural Roads – Bill Zeedyk
☐ An Introduction to Erosion Control – Bill Zeedyk and Jan-Wilam Jansen
☐ Your Remarkable Riparian – Steve Nelle
☐ On Pasture – a weekly online digest of grazing-related information

Organizations that can help​

☐ National Center for Appropriate Technology - ATTRA
☐ Quivira Coalition
☐ Holistic Management International and Savory Global
☐ Ranching For Profit
☐ Kiss The Ground
☐ Understanding Ag
☐ National Grazing Lands Coalition

Plan, implement and track your grazing​

Map and understand your land
☐ Google Maps is free and simple to use; helpful video to get you started
☐ Google Earth Pro is free and powerful; helpful video with the basics
☐ Rangeland Analysis Platform – app to predict site specific, precip-related forage production

Apps and tools for grazing planning and tracking
☐ Pasture Map – App; Soil for Water members get a discount
☐ Maia Grazing App
☐ Grazing Planning Manual – free download from Holistic Management International

Electric fencing and watering systems
☐ Gallagher
☐ Premier 1 Supplies
☐ American Grazing Lands
☐ Power Flex Fence
☐ Stockwater (How-to-Guide) - Jim and Dawn Gerrish

Low-stress stockmanship
☐ Whit Hibbard, with an excellent series of articles at On Pasture

Budgeting and profitability analysis
☐ Assess financial costs and returns by enterprise with Livestock Compass

Monitoring guides and apps​

☐ Bullseye! Targeting Your Rangeland Health Objectives – Kirk Gadzia and Todd Graham
☐ Monitoring Manual for Grassland Shrubland and Savannah Ecosystems – Jeffrey Herrick and others
☐ GrassSnap - smartphone app for photo monitoring
☐ LandPKS - smartphone app for soil info, and tracking actions and monitoring results
☐ Farm OS – open source software for mapping, planning and tracking management actions

Soil health monitoring tools​

☐ Measure soil compaction with a penetrometer
☐ Determine how well your land captures water with a ring infiltrometer
☐ How nutrient dense and resilient are your plants? Refractometer
☐ Take your soils’ temperature
☐ How is your soil moisture?
☐ Tools to help you get those soil samples out of the ground

Soil health testing resources​

☐ Haney Soil Test interpretation guide
☐ Regen Ag Lab offers various tests of soil biology and chemistry with discounts for S4W network members

 

[Elbert Caro]

Hey Linda! All the information that I was looking for on this topic, I found thanks to you. Thank you!

 

[Mike Thayer]

So much information it makes my head swim! LOL

 

[Linda Poole]

Thank you, Elbert and Mike! So glad you find the resources helpful! Please share any that you've found that others might benefit from -- there's a lot of great information out there. Some not so great or just plain wrong stuff too -- which is why it's helpful to share trusted sources of information!