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How Grass Farmers Can Create Sustainable Systems for Healthy Animals and Farm Ecosystems
Sarah Flack
Paperback
$ 39.95
“ Sarah Flack has written a marvelous template to sustainable grazing . She discourse underlying rule and specific practices that make her book meaningful for anyone concerned in the nontextual matter and science of grazing . ”–Fred Provenza , professor emeritus , Department of Wildland Resources , Utah State University , generator ofNourishment
Grazing direction might seem dewy-eyed : just put livestock in a pasture and have them eat their filling . However , as Sarah Flack explains inThe Art and Science of Grazing , the pasture / stock relationship is incredibly complex .
If a farmer does n’t pay close attention to how the animals are grazing , the result poorly supervise grazing organization can be harmful to the health of the livestock , pasture industrial plant , and grime . Well - managed pastures can instead make healthier animals , a divers and resilient pasture ecosystem , and other benefits . Flack delves deeply below the surface of “ countenance the cows eat grass , ” demonstrating that grazing management is a sophisticated science that requires mastery of plant and fauna physiology , creature behaviour , and ecology . She also shows readers that applying grazing management scientific discipline on a make farm is an prowess form that calls on pasture farmers to be measured observers , excellent planners and record - custodian , skillful interpreter of their observance , and creative troubleshooter . The Art and Science of Grazingwill allow farmers to gain a solid intellect of the key principles of crop management so they can both design and manage successful grazing system . The book ’s unique glide path confront information first from the perspective of pasture plants , and then from the farm animal perspective — helping farmers understand both plant and brute needs before set up up a skimming system .
This volume is an all important guide for ruminant farmers who want to be able to make grazing systems that meet the needs of their stock , pasture plants , soils , and the large ecosystem . The record discusses all the practical detail that are critical for sustained succeeder : how to set up a new organisation or improve existing systems ; acreage calculations ; paddock layout ; fence and drinking piss access ; lanes and other shaving substructure ; managing farm animal social movement and flow ; soil fertility ; seeding and reseed pastures ; and more . The author includes descriptions of real skimming system working well on dairy farm , kick , goat , and sheep farm in different regions of North America . The book cover pasture requirements specific to organic agriculture , but will be of exercise to both constitutive and non - organic farms .
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