AgrotechVirtual fencing uses GPS collars that sound a warning as a cow nears an invisible boundary; ranchers and land agencies say it lets cattle keep grazing unburned ground while fire-damaged range recovers.
LivestockA federal guide now defines clearing to include removing grasses, and with the continuing-use exemption gone, graziers ask whether restocking long-ungrazed paddocks could breach environment law.
OpinionIn a column for Beef Central, scientists Pablo Manzano, Enrike Maree and Peer Ederer of the Dublin Declaration argue that removing cattle and other grazers lets plant fuel pile up, and that managed grazing belongs among the tools against wildfire.
A herd of 12 Droimeann cattle, an endangered Irish breed, has moved to the Ardtornish estate in the Scottish Highlands to break up bracken and help native woodland plants recover.
CropsCover crops cost $42 to $120 an acre to establish, but South Dakota research found grazing them returned $17.23 an acre in the first year and $43.61 in the second, and EQIP can cover up to 75 percent of costs.
LivestockThe 9th Circuit has found that Idaho's 2017 water-rights forfeiture process unconstitutionally targets federal stockwater rights on grazing allotments leased to ranchers.
LivestockMore than 40 hill farmers say in evidence to the Efra committee that a rewilding narrative has captured parts of Natural England, while the agency holds that many protected sites remain in unfavourable condition.
LivestockNebraska Extension agricultural economist Shannon Sand works through the arithmetic of overgrazing: a pasture whose production falls 20 per cent drops from 128.2 to 102.6 animal-unit months, a shortfall that has to be bought as hay, and regaining the original carrying capacity can take three to five
