Posts about intensive grazing and grazing strategies.
Hi and Welcome! I realized recently that I haven’t taken the time to introduce our farm and what we actually do here. Our about page will tell you that we are Andrew and Mandy Bryan and live on our forever property in Southern Missouri that has been in Andrew’s family for decades. We bought the
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Many folks swear goats bring endless headaches. But what if most of that is just bad info? At Plane View Farm we proved the naysayers wrong. Myth 1: Goats Are Impossible to Keep Contained The Effectiveness of High-Tensile Electric Fencing Goats escape everything. That’s the big claim. I believed it once. My old fences sucked.
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Don’t Buy Cattle! Beef prices are at an all time high, and I’m not just talking about at the grocery store. Tight supply and steady demand have sent cattle prices at the sale barn soaring. In fact, prices are up about 18% over where they were just one year ago. Market analysts are saying that
How Sheep and Goats Beat Cattle on Costs, Stability, and Profits. Read More »
Picture this: You wake up to birds chirping, step outside to your ownpatch of earth, and tend to veggies that you’ll sell fresh at the localmarket. No more rush-hour traffic or desk jobs—just you, the soil, and ashot at real freedom. But can a small spread of land, say a few acres, reallypay the bills
How to Make A Living on a Small Scale Farm or Homestead. Read More »
High tensile electric fence. You either love it or hate it. In my opinion, I believe that those who are oppose to high tensile electric fence feel the way they do because they think it’s unreliable or overly complicated. In this post I’ll go over a hand full of ways you can trouble shoot your
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In our last post (Small-Scale Farming: A Profitable, Sustainable Farming Model) we went over some of the basics of small-scale farming, in terms of setting goals and expectations, as well as some of the animals that you might consider raising. In this post (Part 2) I’m going to cover small scale farm infrastructure, increasing income
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Droughts are part of farming and in my neck of the woods, the saying is that we’re only ever two weeks away from a drought. Things can change quickly, leaving even the most diligent unprepared. Last year we had a decent spring, a hot dry summer, and a really good fall. During the summer, many
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Intensive grazing is not necessarily about trying to get the cattle to intensively graze an area. It’s actually management intensive grazing, so the management is the intensive part. Like a lot of people, I also refer to it as intensive grazing. The idea is to get the livestock to eat everything in the pasture, then
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