Coen Farm created shallow ditches called swales to capture millions of gallons of snowmelt each spring
If all of Alberta’s grasslands were rotational grazed, 1.2 million tonnes of carbon could be sequestered every year
Range management principles are ‘fairly simple’ but applying them depends on local conditions
Productivity in many Alberta pastures is so low it ‘doesn’t pay a lot of bills,’ says forage specialist
Overgrazing can really hurt productivity, so it pays to know how many cows you can put on a pasture
Annual pastures allow you to properly rest their perennial cousins and can be used for silage or greenfeed
Conduct plant counts as soon as pastures and hayfields start to green up, say forage experts
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