Tired of cash flows that leave little money in your pocket? If you're feeding livestock in confinement rather than on pasture, you're working too hard and spending too much money. Your permanent pasture is a valuable resource that up till now has been wasted. Forget about how pastures are. Think of how they could be if they were managed with the same amount of attention that you give to your other crops. Voisin management intensive grazing takes into account the needs of both animals and plants, rather than animals alone. Its use can at least double or triple your pasture's productivity. This book explains why and how to use management intensive grazing, and what to expect from its use. It shows a way to simplify your farm operation, reduce its labor needs, increase its productivity, and improve your quality of life.
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"Bill Murphy's book saved our farm and changed our life! It made it possible for our son to come back home to the farm, which now that it is based on pasture will support two families, rather than going bankrupt as we were when we fed in confinement. " -- Henry Forgues, Vermont dairy farmer
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For nearly 20 years, Bill Murphy has been a leader in North America helping farmers to use the pasture resource to its fullest potential in cutting production costs. As many successful pasture-based farmers know, there is no cheaper way to feed livestock than on pasture and this book explains how to do it!
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This review is from: Greener Pasture on Your Side of the Fence: Better Farming Voisin Management-Intensive Grazing (4th Edition) (Volume 4) (Paperback)
I'm reading this book for the third time - there's just too much info to digest in one reading. We are just starting with cattle and are using this book as our bible. It not only explains the many advantages of raising animals using managment intensive grazing (more profit, environmentally friendly, humane, better nutrition, ease of animal handling), it goes into great detail on HOW to do it. My husband used the chapter on fencing to select products that have received many positive comments from visitors to the farm. I especially enjoyed reading about pasture plant diversity and how cattle "harvest" it. Our cattle look (and taste) great, much to the shock of long-time cattle farmers in our community who are surprised that two greenhorns like us can do so well. We attribute our success to this book and highly recommend it.
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This review is from: Greener Pasture on Your Side of the Fence: Better Farming Voisin Management-Intensive Grazing (4th Edition) (Volume 4) (Paperback)
This is a really good overview if you are interested in pasture based livestock farming. With a lot of interesting facts about pasture ecology and euqlly fascinating detials about livestock production on pasture, I think Mr Murphy has put together a good book for livestock producers to use to become acquainted with pasture-based farming.
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Loved this book - although I have only one horse and can not do some of the intensive grazing techniques, I do have a better understanding about maintaining the pastures. This has been very useful and will enable me to get together with the neigbors and do several horses on the pastures in rotation. We will all have more edible forage for the horses.
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Permanent pastures are amazingly complex environments, compared to row crops such as corn. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pregrazing mass, pasture mass, pasture forage quality, postgrazing mass, management intensive grazing, rejected forage, pasture plant community, surplus forage, white clover content, paddock layout, lax grazing, enough leaf surface, fresh paddock, pasture demand, forage allowance, short occupation periods, portable fencing, short grazing periods, feed budget, intensive grazing management, remaining forage, pasture class, pasture environment, fiberglass posts, early spring grazing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Permanent pastures are amazingly complex environments, compared to row crops such as corn. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pregrazing mass, pasture mass, pasture forage quality, postgrazing mass, management intensive grazing, rejected forage, pasture plant community, surplus forage, white clover content, paddock layout, lax grazing, enough leaf surface, fresh paddock, pasture demand, forage allowance, short occupation periods, portable fencing, short grazing periods, feed budget, intensive grazing management, remaining forage, pasture class, pasture environment, fiberglass posts, early spring grazing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Stockman Grass Farmer, New Zealand, United States, The New Farm, Cabin Fever, Holistic Resource Management, Iowa State University Press, Island Press, New York, British Grassland Society, Grass Productivity, Intensive Grazing Management, Allan's Observations, Andre Voisin, Grassland Improvement, Mud Season, New Mexico, Philosophical Library, Better Grassland Sward, Charlie Opitz, Crosby Lockwood, Gallagher Electronics Ltd, Leonard Hill Books, Mineral Point, North America New!
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