Featured Agricultural Resources
Curated podcasts and videos from industry leaders
Essential Farm Podcasts
The BEST way to raise COWS that I have ever seen | Mob Grazing at Polyface Farm
Joel Salatin showed us another amazing piece of his farm business. He explained why he uses mob grazing and what are the benefits to the land and the animals.
Soil Health
Multiflora Rose: What It's Trying to Tell You
Learn what multiflora rose reveals about your pasture management. Discover effective control strategies using livestock, mechanical methods, and prevention tactics for better land stewardship.
Building Farm Ponds
Master farm pond construction with expert guidance on site selection, excavation, spillway design, and sealing techniques. Transform your water security and livestock management capabilities.
Nitrogen Fixation: Nature's Free Fertilizer Factory
Discover how nitrogen fixation can reduce fertilizer costs while improving soil health. Learn practical strategies for using cover crops and legumes to capture free nitrogen from the air.
The Basics of Cover Crops
Explore how cover crops build healthier soil, prevent erosion, and turn fallow fields into future-ready farmland.
Cover crops: What To Pick
A practical guide written to help farmers select the most suitable cover crops by aligning choices with specific goals, timelines, and soil conditions.
Canada Thistle: What It's Trying to Tell You
Discover what Canada thistle reveals about your soil health and learn how rotational high stock density grazing can naturally control this persistent weed while improving pasture conditions.
Roller Crimping: What, How, and Why
Discover how roller crimping offers a chemical-free solution for cover crop termination, enhancing soil health and reducing erosion.
Livestock
Angus: The Gold Standard
Discover why Angus cattle have become synonymous with premium beef quality in American agriculture. Comprehensive guide covering marbling ability, feed efficiency, market recognition, and management strategies.
Small-Scale Pastured Broiler Production: Building a Profitable Poultry Enterprise
Discover how pastured broiler production offers an accessible entry point into profitable livestock farming. Learn mobile coop systems, feed management, processing options, and direct marketing strategies for small-scale success.
Barber Pole Worms: Prevention and Treatment Ideas
Learn comprehensive strategies for preventing and treating barber pole worms in livestock. Practical approaches combining rotational grazing, nutrition, monitoring, and strategic treatments.
Barber Pole Worm's: A Deadly Threat to Livestock
Learn about the devastating impact of barber pole worms (Haemonchus contortus) on sheep and goats. Understand parasite biology, life cycles, symptoms, and why traditional deworming fails.
Hereford Cattle: Not a Bad Choice
Discover why Hereford cattle remain a solid choice for modern ranchers. Learn about their adaptability, maternal traits, crossbreeding potential, and management considerations for successful beef operations.
Getting Started with Goats: A Beginner's Guide to Understanding the Basics
Learn the fundamentals of goat farming with this comprehensive beginner's guide. Understand goat terminology, behavior, nutrition, infrastructure, and production systems for successful livestock operations.
Dorper Sheep: The Commercial Meat Producer's Choice
Discover why Dorper sheep are becoming the preferred choice for commercial meat production. Learn about their adaptability, breeding performance, and profitability for modern sheep operations.
Milkweed in Livestock Operations: What It's Trying to Tell You
Learn what milkweed reveals about your pasture conditions and management practices. Discover strategic grazing approaches for managing this toxic but ecologically important plant.
Getting Started with Cattle: A Beginner's Guide to Understanding the Basics
Learn the fundamentals of cattle farming with this comprehensive beginner's guide. Understand cattle terminology, behavior, nutrition, infrastructure, and marketing options for successful livestock operations.
Following Livestock with Laying Hens: Breaking Parasite Cycles While Producing Premium Eggs
Learn how integrating laying hens behind livestock breaks parasite cycles, reduces feed costs, and produces premium eggs. Research-backed strategies for profitable multi-species grazing systems.
Adding Livestock to Your Row Crop Operation: A Farmer's Guide to Making the Decision
Learn how to successfully integrate livestock into your row crop operation. Practical guidance on species selection, infrastructure, marketing, and profitability analysis.
Pigs Health & Wellbeing
Disease Prevention and Health Management in Pastured Pigs
Learn essential strategies for keeping pastured pigs healthy through proper disease prevention, stress management, nutrition, and biosecurity practices in outdoor production systems.
Pastured Pigs: Crazy or Genius?
Explore the complexities of pasture-based pig production. Learn about the challenges, benefits, and realities of raising pigs on pasture with expert insights and practical advice.
Pasture Pigs Part 2: Management Strategies for Success
Master the art of pasture pig management with proven strategies for paddock design, rotation timing, infrastructure, and seasonal adaptation.
Pastured Pigs Part 3: Macronutrient Management - The Essentials
Master the practical nutrition essentials for pasture-based pig production. Learn about carbohydrates, protein, fat, and water management with real-world feeding strategies.
Pastured Pigs Part 4: Micronutrient Management - The Missing Pieces
Master micronutrient management for pastured pigs. Learn vitamin, mineral, and essential fatty acid strategies that prevent 90% of health problems in outdoor pig production.
Gardening
Growing Watermelons: A Practical Guide for Gardeners and Market Growers
Learn how to successfully grow watermelons from planting to harvest. Comprehensive guide covering variety selection, planting techniques, water management, pest control, and harvesting tips for both home gardeners and market growers.
Gardening for Beginners: Getting Ready to Grow
A practical guide to starting your first garden—combining personal stories, beginner-friendly advice, and science-backed tips to help you grow with confidence.
Growing and Enjoying Your Garden
Master the essential skills for planting, watering, maintaining, and harvesting your garden. Practical advice for keeping your first garden thriving all season long.
Building the Ultimate Market Garden
Master the infrastructure and systems that make market gardening profitable. From tarping and irrigation to soil health strategies, learn what successful growers use to scale efficiently.
Rotational Grazing
What is Mob Grazing
Discover mob grazing fundamentals and how high-density rotational systems can transform pasture health while addressing management challenges. Expert insights on stocking density, movement frequency, and practical implementation.
Rethinking Pasture Weeds: Reading Nature's Repair Signals
Discover how weeds serve as nature's diagnostic system and repair crew. Learn to read landscape patterns and work with natural succession for healthier, more productive pastures.
Mastering the Mechanics: Advanced Rotational Grazing Strategies
Learn advanced rotational grazing techniques including forage calculations, seasonal timing, water systems, and stocking rates that turn good graziers into great ones.
Getting Water to Every Paddock
Learn how to design efficient water systems for rotational grazing. Explore gravity-fed, mobile, and hybrid approaches with practical implementation strategies and cost analysis.
Fencing Systems for Rotational Grazing: Key Components for Success
Discover how the right fencing systems turn rotational grazing from a logistical headache into a powerful tool for soil regeneration, animal health, and pasture productivity.
Rotational Grazing
Discover how rotational grazing transforms pasture management and livestock health by simply giving the land a rest.
Business & Marketing
Direct Marketing Goat and Sheep Meat: A Producer's Guide to Profitable Sales
Master the art of direct marketing goat and sheep meat with strategies for ethnic markets, processing requirements, seasonal demand patterns, and profitable sales channels.
Essential Estate Planning Documents: What Each One Actually Does
Understanding estate planning documents for farming families. Learn about wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and business succession planning to protect your farm and family.
LLCs for Farmers: Structuring Your Operation for Success
Learn how Limited Liability Companies can protect your farm assets, reduce taxes, and facilitate succession planning. Expert guidance on business structures for modern farming operations.
Freedom for Farmers: Direct to Consumer Sales
Learn how direct-to-consumer marketing can transform your farm business. Practical strategies for building relationships, finding customers, and becoming a price maker.
Sole Proprietorships for Farmers: The Default Choice
Learn about sole proprietorship as the default farm business structure. Understand the benefits, risks, and tax implications of this simple farming business setup.
Estate Planning for American Farmers: Protecting Your Family's Future
Learn essential estate planning strategies for farming families. Protect your legacy, avoid costly mistakes, and ensure smooth farm transitions to the next generation.
Cooking & Recipies
Slow-Roasted Tender Chicken
Learn how to make incredibly tender slow-roasted chicken with this simple college recipe. Low and slow cooking method makes the meat fall off the bone with basic seasonings.
Grandma's Fresh Summer Vegetable Salad
A refreshing summer vegetable salad recipe using fresh garden produce. Perfect marinade with cucumbers, onions, peppers, and tomatoes - a family farm tradition.
Grandma's Buttered Venison
This one here is one of grandma's classics. Served best with mashed potatoes and canned green beans on a cold winter night. A traditional recipe for tender, flavorful venison.
Overnight Slow-Cooked Pork Butt
Learn how to cook tender, fall-apart pork butt overnight with this foolproof slow-cooking method. Simple seasoning and easy techniques for perfect pulled pork every time.
Melt-in-Your-Mouth Lamb Shanks: The Easy Way
Learn how to cook tender, fall-off-the-bone lamb shanks with this foolproof slow-cooking method. Simple ingredients and easy techniques for restaurant-quality results at home.
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