Cattle Links

Cattle International Series – extraordinarily thorough overview of worldwide beef and dairy cattle breeds, by creator/researcher Theo Oosthuizen by which he discusses not solely varied traits and historical past of every breed, but in addition their illness and local weather variations, calving ease, meat qualities, and many others. An amazing useful resource that can assist you choose the best breed to your beef ranch!

Cattle Breeds – on-line listing of the world’s cattle breeds, maintained by the Oklahoma State College Division of Animal Science.

Cattle Today – itemizing of purebred cattle breeds, with hyperlinks to their breeding associations and particular person breeder lists.

Livestock Conservancy – devoted to conserving uncommon livestock breeds, consists of an summary of a large variety of heritage cattle breeds together with a few of their valued traits and the way frequent or uncommon they’re in the present day.

American Grassfed Association (AGA) – supplies a grass fed certification program for advertising grass fed beef. Farms utilizing their brand should use pasture-based farming methods with none grain. So, whereas natural certification packages enable each natural feedlot manufacturing and natural grain feeding, the AGA’s grass fed certification program stays true to the spirit of what customers think about they’re getting after they attain for non-conventional beef merchandise.

Certified Pasturefed (Australia) – industry-led certification program in Australia, which certifies pasturefed or grassfed manufacturing strategies. This can be a multi-tiered certification program with further ranges for farmers who’re additionally antibiotic-free and don’t use progress hormones.

Eatwild.com – shopper info web site about grassfed meat, eggs, and dairy, in addition to a listing of farms that promote grass fed merchandise. Website maintained by dietary journalist and creator Jo Robinson.

How to Direct Market Your Beef – free on-line e book by Jan and Will Holder by which they supply recommendation and share their experiences with constructing their direct-marketing pipeline for his or her beef, courtesy of the Sustainable Agriculture Analysis & Education web site.

Reducing Cattle Shrink – Ontario Ministry of Agriculture article in regards to the pointless weight reduction attributable to irritating cattle dealing with practices throughout processing, transport, and advertising.

Dr. Temple Grandin’s Web Page – cattle conduct, corral and facility design, and slaughter suggestions. 

Bud William’s Stockmanship – web site devoted to low-stress cattle dealing with strategies and cattle advertising methods.

American Cattlemen – US-oriented cattle farming web site + subscription-based journal. Consists of some free on-line articles and a big cattle breeder listing with over 300 cattle breeders.

BEEF Magazine – web site + subscription cattle farming journal for cow-calf producers, stocker-growers, cattle feeders, veterinarians, nutritionists and the cattle farming {industry}.

Canadian Cattlemen – Canadian web site + subscription-based journal devoted to cattle manufacturing – consists of free on-line articles starting from how one can elevate cattle, to forage crop manufacturing, veterinary recommendation, markets and climate.

Stockman Grassfarmer – a month-to-month newspaper devoted to pasture-based livestock manufacturing, together with some on-line grass fed sources. Based and edited by creator Allan Nation.

Ranching for Profit – comprises a improbable assortment of articles about ‘Ranching for Revenue’ by Ranch Administration Consultants, co-owned by creator Stan Parsons. In addition they run a faculty and ‘govt hyperlink’ program to assist cattle farmers with their companies.

Savory Institute – promotes the large-scale restoration of the world’s grasslands via holistic administration utilizing livestock to heal the land. Co-founded by Allan Savory, who created the philosophy and follow of Holistic Administration. You may additionally wish to take a look at Allan Savory’s presentation on TED Talks within the video beneath.

Holistic Management International (HMI) – land administration training for farmers, ranchers and land stewards, offering an entire farm planning system. Though Allan Savory (see Savory Institute above) is not concerned, he was one of many founders of HMI and his rules of holistic administration proceed to be on the core of HMI’s teachings and administration practices.

AcresUSA – journal and bookstore devoted to natural and sustainable farming info, masking each livestock and crop manufacturing.

Storey Publishing – e book writer with a complete choice of sensible how-to books masking a variety of subjects surrounding country-living, gardening, farming, and extra. My e book, Grass fed Cattle: how to produce and market natural beef, was printed by Storey Publishing.

Polyface Farms – revered creator and public-speaker Joel Salatin’s household farm, which supplies natural farming training (books, DVD’s, lectures, farm excursions, and many others) constructed across the farm’s natural, multi-species, native direct-marketing farming mannequin. 

Permies.com – boards devoted to permaculture fans, from grass fed cattle to honeybees, pasture manufacturing to forest gardens and the whole lot in between.

Insteading.com – web site and group discussion board devoted to sensible hands-on recommendation for homesteaders and other people focused on sustainable dwelling.

Beef Cattle Research Council – Canada’s industry-led company for beef analysis. The positioning has a variety of improbable instructional sources helpful to anybody focused on elevating beef cattle no matter the place your farm is on the traditional to natural farming spectrum.

BeefResearch.org – that is the US industry-led company for beef analysis. Their analysis and training focuses on Beef Security, Human Vitamin, Product Enhancement, Sustainability, and Market Analysis.

Kinsey’s Agricultural Services – soil fertility consultants; present soil analyses and fertilizer suggestions  based mostly on the Albrecht system of soil mineral balancing for each standard and natural farms, for each crops and pastures. Proprietor/creator Neal Kinsey additionally places on glorious public and fertilizer industry-oriented programs.

Soil Carbon Coalition – a non-profit group that does systematic natural matter testing on ranches to watch how varied farming methods have an effect on natural matter content material within the soil, with the aim of selling farming methods that flip atmospheric carbon into soil natural matter. Discover out whether or not your farm may be a part of this system to watch the results of your farming methods on natural matter in your soils!