Pasture & Grass-Fed

ATTRA Resources on Rotation Grazing
The ever-useful ATTRA website provides a wide variety of resources of livestock management. This page discusses rotational grazing and provides links to other ATTRA livestock publications on multi-species grazing, pasture management, organic transition, and nutrient cycling.

Forage Resources – University of Wisconsin Extension
An older, but information-rich website on topics including pasture management, water systems, fencing, animal health, and weed control.

Grass-Based Dairy Studies
Several studies conducted by Wisconsin Integrated Cropping Systems Management researchers with Altfrid and Sue Krusenbaum to evaluate their seasonal, grass-based dairy operation, including pasture productivity, profitability and rotational grazing.

University of Vermont Rotational Grazing Project
The use of well-managed pasture (i.e. rotational grazing) has the potential to increase the financial viability of small- and medium-sized farms by reducing fixed and operating costs of production. There is a lot of information available from the University of Vermont.

Livestock Management Studies – Organic Farming Research Foundation
High-quality research studies over the past 15 years on various aspects of livestock management. As academic studies, they are typically focused on a fairly narrow subject, but important ones.

Books

Livestock

• Storey’s Guide to Raising Dairy Goats. Jerry Belanger. 2001
• Small Scale Livestock Farming. Carol Ekarius. 1999
• Chicken Tractor. Andy Lee and Pat Foreman. 1999
• Day Range Poultry. Andy Lee and Pat Foreman. 2002
• Storey’s Guide to Raising Chickens. Gail Damerow. 1995
• Pastured Poultry Profits. Joel Salatin. 1999
• Salad Bar Beef. Joel Salatin. 1996
• Pasture Perfect: The Far‐Reaching Benefits of Choosing Meat, Eggs, and Dairy Products from Grass-Fed Animals.
• Jo Robinson. 2004
• Raising the Homestead Hog. Jerome Belanger. 1977

Bees

• Natural Beekeeping. Ross Conrad. 2007
• Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis. Rowan Jacobsen. 2009
• The Forgotten Pollinators. Stephen Buckmann and Gary Nabhan. 1997
• The Flower Farmer. Lynn Byczynski. 1997