January is a natural time to reflect back, think forward and set the stage for a more resilient grazing season.

After an early season snowstorm in November 2014, Troy Bishopp had an epiphany that changed the way he approaches tending cattle. The longtime grass farmer and grazing advocate, who had recently ...

In a leader-follower grazing system, animals with different forage needs pass through a pasture in succession, using the land more efficiently without destroying its ability to support livestock.

Researchers have discovered that grazing animals such as deer and rabbits are actually helping to spread plant disease -- quadrupling its prevalence in some cases -- and encouraging an invasion of ...

The idea with targeted grazing is to focus on landscape and vegetation goals, according to Dan Macon, the UC Cooperative Extension livestock and natural resources advisor for Placer, Nevada, Sutter ...

Large grazing animals have a strong selective force on plants, certain plants have evolved traits to thrive on pastoral landscapes. Spengler and Mueller theorize that yak herding may have helped drive ...

Most animals move through their habitats focused on survival rather than construction. They eat, dig, travel, and reproduce ...

Secrets regarding the spread of the world's grasslands — which proved vital to countless species of grazing animals and may have influenced humanity's evolution — have now been uncovered in fossil ...

On vacation at a game preserve in South Africa, I was out with my family on an early morning safari when we spotted a pair of rhinoceroses grazing in the distance. We decided to get a closer look.

Years ago, The Zimbabwean biologist and environmentalist, Allan Savory of the Savory Institute, believed that large roaming animals, such as elephants, were destroying Africa’s great plains, leading ...

In a recent presentation, titled Managed Sheep Grazing Can Improve Soil Quality and Carbon Sequestration at Solar Photovoltaic Sites, researchers from Temple University investigated the effects of ...