Livestock & Range

Matchmaking grazing animals with grass and rangelands Professional grazing of overgrown rangelands, pastures and parcels is proven to reduce the spread of dangerous and costly wildfires.

UC Cooperative recently wrapped up a grant that explored the benefits of livestock for fire fuels reduction and fire safety. The next phase of this study has just been initiated.

Click here to view the article. The article is posted as a pdf instead of directly in the blog because it has a lot of tables and the blog does not handle tables well. This is a companion article to the Costs of Compost Addition article about the same project.

Pam Krone, Agriculture Water Quality Coordinator with California Marine Sanctuary Foundation/Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary received a Healthy Soils grant from the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) in spring 2018 to increase carbon sequestration in the soil while also supp...

UCCE San Luis Obispo County is hosting a one-hour Zoom workshop covering the following topics: Forage Production and Nutrient Quality Trace Mineral Supplementation Toxic Plants Healthy Soils / Composting Yeomans Plow Grazing Reduces Wildfire Risks & Severity Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 Time: 4...