Since it began in 1988, Organic Valley has embraced farm practices that protect land, livestock and human health. The cooperative’s farm and land program involves ongoing research on cover crops, crop rotations, minimum tillage practices and carbon sequestration. In 2020 a grazing project on a test farm near its headquarters in La Farge, Wis., involved […]
00Leah Call/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/shadehaven-mobile-shade-people-animals-grazing-logo-transparent-300x181.pngLeah Call2020-12-14 06:01:292025-07-29 02:57:40Shade Aids Organic Valley Pasture Project
When Ron Locke gets into something, he is all in. After retiring from the Air Force 20 years ago, this southwest Missouri farmer got into raising registered Angus beef cattle. Today he practices artificial insemination, conducts DNA testing on all his calves and intensively grazes his herd of 60 registered Angus mama cows. And while […]
00Leah Call/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/shadehaven-mobile-shade-people-animals-grazing-logo-transparent-300x181.pngLeah Call2020-08-17 05:36:462025-08-11 07:36:47Grazing Right in Missouri
Tennessee Beef farmer and rotational grazier John Abe Teague looks forward to implementing new regenerative farming strategies in the 2020 grazing season. “We are embracing regenerative agriculture to improve our grasslands, heal our land, increase forage diversity, and improve the health of our soil and livestock, while keeping more of our dollars on the farm […]
Regenerative agriculture is creating a buzz throughout the food and agriculture world. It’s no longer enough to farm sustainably. We need to do more. As we head into a new decade, regenerative agriculture techniques should be the priority of everyone who cares about improving soils, producing healthy food and contributing to solving our climate change […]
BDA Farm is a 6,200-acre certified organic produce and livestock operation in Uniontown, AL. With a focus on regenerative agriculture, BDA produces more than 40 varieties of vegetables and herbs and moves 1,000 beef, 500 sheep and 3,000 laying hens across 4,000+ acres. “The role of our livestock is to convert grass to an end […]
00Leah Call/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/shadehaven-mobile-shade-people-animals-grazing-logo-transparent-300x181.pngLeah Call2019-09-17 10:20:432019-09-17 10:20:43Grazing with Shade in Alabama
Grazing expert Greg Judy shares his grass-growing and grazing expertise. Frequent moves, never over grazing, and providing shade are all part of the grazing strategy on Greg Judy’s farms in Rucker, Missouri. Judy grazes South Poll cows, cow/calf pairs, bred heifers, bulls and stockers across 16 farms – four owned and 12 leased. The two-a-day moves […]
Diversity reigns at Reverence Farms in Graham, North Carolina. Suzanne Nelson Karreman and her husband Hue operate this 400-acre farm with a focus on building soil and improving the pastures where dairy cattle, beef, sheep, pigs, horses, chickens and turkeys graze. To help them accomplish their goals, they utilize two Shade Haven mobile shade […]
Jason Leavitt is the fourth generation to work his family farm situated between the Chesapeake Bay and the Patuxent River in Owings, Maryland. Leavitt transitioned from mostly grain to grassfed beef, but with no trees in his pasture, he needed shade. “I tried to construct my own with hay wagons, but once we had a […]
00Leah Call/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/shadehaven-mobile-shade-people-animals-grazing-logo-transparent-300x181.pngLeah Call2019-06-13 11:15:372019-06-13 11:15:37Five Years with Shade Haven
Dr. Paul Dettloff on protecting your livestock from the sun. From conception to maturity, your cattle need protection from the hot summer sun. “Anytime the air temperature reaches 85 degrees an animal will enter some heat stress,” notes Organic Valley staff veterinarian Dr. Paul Dettloff, considered one of the top holistic veterinarians in the country. […]
00Leah Call/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/shadehaven-mobile-shade-people-animals-grazing-logo-transparent-300x181.pngLeah Call2019-05-20 07:09:392025-07-29 03:25:03Tis the Season for Heat Stress
Retirement goals often include travel, boats or spending more time on the golf course. John Abe Teague’s retirement dream was to farm and raise cattle, and that’s what he did. In 2014 Teague started with 13 bred Angus cows at his farm in Jonesborough, Tennessee, but with limited trees he was challenged to supply the […]
Shade Aids Organic Valley Pasture Project
/in Farm practices, Farm storiesSince it began in 1988, Organic Valley has embraced farm practices that protect land, livestock and human health. The cooperative’s farm and land program involves ongoing research on cover crops, crop rotations, minimum tillage practices and carbon sequestration. In 2020 a grazing project on a test farm near its headquarters in La Farge, Wis., involved […]
Grazing Right in Missouri
/in Farm stories, Rotational grazingWhen Ron Locke gets into something, he is all in. After retiring from the Air Force 20 years ago, this southwest Missouri farmer got into raising registered Angus beef cattle. Today he practices artificial insemination, conducts DNA testing on all his calves and intensively grazes his herd of 60 registered Angus mama cows. And while […]
Better Soil, Better Grazing
/in Farm practices, Farm storiesTennessee Beef farmer and rotational grazier John Abe Teague looks forward to implementing new regenerative farming strategies in the 2020 grazing season. “We are embracing regenerative agriculture to improve our grasslands, heal our land, increase forage diversity, and improve the health of our soil and livestock, while keeping more of our dollars on the farm […]
What’s Your 2020 Regenerative Commitment?
/in Farm practices, Rotational grazingRegenerative agriculture is creating a buzz throughout the food and agriculture world. It’s no longer enough to farm sustainably. We need to do more. As we head into a new decade, regenerative agriculture techniques should be the priority of everyone who cares about improving soils, producing healthy food and contributing to solving our climate change […]
Grazing with Shade in Alabama
/in Farm stories, Rotational grazingBDA Farm is a 6,200-acre certified organic produce and livestock operation in Uniontown, AL. With a focus on regenerative agriculture, BDA produces more than 40 varieties of vegetables and herbs and moves 1,000 beef, 500 sheep and 3,000 laying hens across 4,000+ acres. “The role of our livestock is to convert grass to an end […]
Fall Grazing with Greg Judy
/in Farm practices, Rotational grazingGrazing expert Greg Judy shares his grass-growing and grazing expertise. Frequent moves, never over grazing, and providing shade are all part of the grazing strategy on Greg Judy’s farms in Rucker, Missouri. Judy grazes South Poll cows, cow/calf pairs, bred heifers, bulls and stockers across 16 farms – four owned and 12 leased. The two-a-day moves […]
Shade Improves Pasture Fertility in NC
/in Farm practices, Farm storiesDiversity reigns at Reverence Farms in Graham, North Carolina. Suzanne Nelson Karreman and her husband Hue operate this 400-acre farm with a focus on building soil and improving the pastures where dairy cattle, beef, sheep, pigs, horses, chickens and turkeys graze. To help them accomplish their goals, they utilize two Shade Haven mobile shade […]
Five Years with Shade Haven
/in Farm practices, Farm stories, Rotational grazingJason Leavitt is the fourth generation to work his family farm situated between the Chesapeake Bay and the Patuxent River in Owings, Maryland. Leavitt transitioned from mostly grain to grassfed beef, but with no trees in his pasture, he needed shade. “I tried to construct my own with hay wagons, but once we had a […]
Tis the Season for Heat Stress
/in Farm practices, Rotational grazingDr. Paul Dettloff on protecting your livestock from the sun. From conception to maturity, your cattle need protection from the hot summer sun. “Anytime the air temperature reaches 85 degrees an animal will enter some heat stress,” notes Organic Valley staff veterinarian Dr. Paul Dettloff, considered one of the top holistic veterinarians in the country. […]
Tennessee Grazing with Shade
/in Farm storiesRetirement goals often include travel, boats or spending more time on the golf course. John Abe Teague’s retirement dream was to farm and raise cattle, and that’s what he did. In 2014 Teague started with 13 bred Angus cows at his farm in Jonesborough, Tennessee, but with limited trees he was challenged to supply the […]