Grazing Grass Podcast | Rotational Grazing, Soil Health & Profitable Livestock Farming

Show notes available at https://grazinggrass.com/episodes/25 Looking for grass-based breeders?  Explore the Grass Based Genetics directory . Visit our Sponsors: Noble Research Institute Redmond Agriculture Grassroots Carbon Grazing Grass Links Website Community (on Facebook) Original Music by Louis Palfrey

Austin Troyer of Crossroads Land and Livestock shares his journey as a first-generation farmer in eastern Ohio, building a large-scale grazing operation entirely on leased land. Austin explains how working for established ranches shaped his low-input mindset, how he spent years searching for the right lease, and why he has chosen to prioritize sheep alongside cattle on reclaimed strip-mine ground....

Loyd Borntrager is a second-generation dairy farmer from south-central Kansas who has transitioned his family farm from conventional dairying to a pasture-based, direct-to-consumer raw dairy model. At Borntrager Dairy , Loyd focuses on grass-fed production, once-a-day milking, and building a resilient farm business centered on quality, family life, and strong customer relationships. His operation...

Logan Karcher is the owner and operator of Burnt Hill Cattle Company in southern Illinois, where he raises grass-fed beef, hair sheep, pasture pork, and poultry using regenerative grazing principles. Logan shares his journey from conventional agriculture and rodeo stock to intensive grazing, hair sheep, and diversified enterprises that fit both the land and his goals. His story highlights how educ...

Daniel Rose of Grassroots Ranch shares his path from having no farming background to building a diversified, direct-to-consumer livestock operation through leased land near Tulsa. Inspired by reading You Can Farm and learning directly from experience, Daniel walks through the realities of raising grass-fed beef, pasture-raised poultry, and forest-raised pork while managing forage, fencing, water,...

In this episode, a new section called The Overgrazing Section is also added where Cal takes a deep dive into one of the practices of the guests. Listen to learn more! [02:50] - The start of Joshua’s business [07:23] - What led him to South Poll cattle [09:46] - The climate in Southern Ohio [11:49] - Stockpiling fescue [12:57] - Angus cow and Cal [14:09] - Trouble with electric fences [15:31] - Wha...

Show notes available at www.grazinggrass.com/episodes/19 Looking for grass-based breeders?  Explore the Grass Based Genetics directory . Visit our Sponsors: Noble Research Institute Redmond Agriculture Grassroots Carbon Grazing Grass Links Website Community (on Facebook) Original Music by Louis Palfrey

Show notes available at www.grazinggrass.com/episodes/18 Looking for grass-based breeders?  Explore the Grass Based Genetics directory . Visit our Sponsors: Noble Research Institute Redmond Agriculture Grassroots Carbon Grazing Grass Links Website Community (on Facebook) Original Music by Louis Palfrey

More detailed show notes at www.grazinggrass.com/episodes/17 Looking for grass-based breeders?  Explore the Grass Based Genetics directory . Visit our Sponsors: Noble Research Institute Redmond Agriculture Grassroots Carbon Grazing Grass Links Website Community (on Facebook) Original Music by Louis Palfrey

Show notes available at https://grazinggrass.com/episodes/16 Looking for grass-based breeders?  Explore the Grass Based Genetics directory . Visit our Sponsors: Noble Research Institute Redmond Agriculture Grassroots Carbon Grazing Grass Links Website Community (on Facebook) Original Music by Louis Palfrey

Show notes at https://grazinggrass.com/episodes/15 Looking for grass-based breeders?  Explore the Grass Based Genetics directory . Visit our Sponsors: Noble Research Institute Redmond Agriculture Grassroots Carbon Grazing Grass Links Website Community (on Facebook) Original Music by Louis Palfrey

More information at www.grazinggrass.com/episodes/14 Looking for grass-based breeders?  Explore the Grass Based Genetics directory . Visit our Sponsors: Noble Research Institute Redmond Agriculture Grassroots Carbon Grazing Grass Links Website Community (on Facebook) Original Music by Louis Palfrey

More information at https://www.grazinggrass.com/episodes/13 Looking for grass-based breeders?  Explore the Grass Based Genetics directory . Visit our Sponsors: Noble Research Institute Redmond Agriculture Grassroots Carbon Grazing Grass Links Website Community (on Facebook) Original Music by Louis Palfrey

More show notes and links are available at https://www.grazinggrass.com/episodes/12 . Looking for grass-based breeders?  Explore the Grass Based Genetics directory . Visit our Sponsors: Noble Research Institute Redmond Agriculture Grassroots Carbon Grazing Grass Links Website Community (on Facebook) Original Music by Louis Palfrey

Scott Hauck of Sacred Song Farm discusses the rotational grazing of pigs, cattle, sheep, and chickens. We discuss raising hogs in the woods as well as breeds and management. Among the topics covered are flerds, leasing land and Katahdin hair sheep.

Jay and Michelle operate Spirited Rose Farm in Eastern Washington.  On their small farm, they demonstrate you can use regenerative practices no matter your farm size.   Looking for grass-based breeders?  Explore the Grass Based Genetics directory . Visit our Sponsors: Noble Research Institute Redmond Agriculture Grassroots Carbon Grazing Grass Links Website Community (on Facebook) Original Music b...

Jeffers Cattle Company grazes Angus cows in Mexico. Marcos Jeffers joins us to discuss their regenerative approach to their semi-arid environment and how they've reacted to having a drought this year. Also, Marcos explains how he manages his records for 500 paddocks.

Jose of Rocking TT Bar discusses his journey of grazing grass with Water Buffalo.  We talk Water Buffalo management, milking, and beef.  Jose utilizes a mobile milking area and uses it to improve his pastures. More information at https://grazinggrass.com/episodes/8 Looking for grass-based breeders?  Explore the Grass Based Genetics directory . Visit our Sponsors: Noble Research Institute Redmond A...

John Lakey of Lakey Farm in Australia talks about how they are converting CO2 into soil carbon by regenerative farming and their plans for the future. Book(s)/Resource(s) Holistic Management by Allan Savory ( Amazon *) Dirt to Soil by Gabe Brown ( Amazon *) Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe ( Amazon *) Links Lakey Farm Lakey Farm on Instagram Lakey Farm on Twitter Looking for grass-based breeders?  Explore...

Ben Habig of Habig Livestock discusses an innovative approach to obtaining land for grazing goats as well as management of his goats. Watch video coming soon Read transcript coming soon Sponsors Your information could be here. Email Cal at GrazingGrass.com for more information. Book(s)/Resource(s) Kick the Hay Habit by Jim Gerrish ( Amazon *) Management-intensive Grazing by Jim Gerrish ( Amazon *)...

In this episode, Cal talks with Eli Mack of Mack Farms.  Eli grazes a variety of livestock and poultry while he builds his holistic management knowledge. Book(s)/Resource(s) Holistic Management by Allan Savory Stockman Grass Farmer magazine   Dirt to Soil by Gabe Brown Kick the Hay Habit by Jim Gerrish Links Mack Farms on Instagram Looking for grass-based breeders?  Explore the Grass Based Genetic...

In this episode, we interview Bill Fosher of Edgefield Farm. Bill has over 30 years of experience grazing sheep and shares about his operation. You can find out more about Edgefield Farm at https://edgefieldsheep.com and http://www.nhacd.net.  Bill encourages us to visit https://onpasture.com.  He finds it a very valuable resource.  Looking for grass-based breeders?  Explore the Grass Based Geneti...

Ben Hepler of Hepler Beef describes his commercial beef operation and Red Poll operation.  We discuss electric fence equipment, watering, and breeds of cattle. You can find out more about Hepler Beef at https://www.facebook.com/Hepler-Beef-1746380145653321 . Looking for grass-based breeders?  Explore the Grass Based Genetics directory . Visit our Sponsors: Noble Research Institute Redmond Agricult...

Jonathan Kilpatrick manages Bent Tree Farms—a 780-acre, multi-species, grass-based operation producing beef, lamb, and pastured poultry. In this episode, Jonathan shares what he’s learned managing a complex, regenerative system in the challenging rainfall patterns of southeastern Oklahoma. We dig into forages, stockpiling strategies, multi-species management, finishing beef on grass, and the pract...

In this very first episode of the Grazing Grass Podcast, host Cal Hardage shares the story behind the show, his background in farming, and the vision for building a community of graziers who want to maximize forage production through better management. Cal reflects on his upbringing on a dairy and beef operation, his lifelong learning in the world of grass farming, and his current practices on 240...