Drought Reserve Grazing: Same Rain, Two Droughts
Two neighbouring fields on the same geology had completely different summers. The difference arrived with the rain, not the drought.
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Field Notes
Early Spring Grazing: The Rotation That Shapes the Whole Season
The grass greens up, the neighbour’s stock go out, and the pressure is on. Why the first rotation decides the rest of the year.
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The most overlooked factor for successful regenerative grazing.
Regenerative grazing works. After teaching it to hundreds of farmers, here’s the factor that most often decides whether it works for you.
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Laggan Croft – An Exploration of Regeneration
A small croft on the Isle of Lismore, and what it means to start regenerating a piece of land of our own.
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Out-wintering cattle is key for resilience in regenerative livestock farming.
“It will never work on my farm” used to be the commonest response to outwintering. What changed at FAI’s Wytham Farm. (By Georgia Wingfield-Hayes)
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McDonald’s UK and Ireland & FAI: Demonstrating Commercial Regenerative Beef Farming
A McDonald’s-funded project with FAI Farms demonstrating regenerative beef farming at commercial scale.
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Field Notes
What did trees ever do for us? Four ways trees can improve pasture productivity and profits.
Four ways trees can improve pasture productivity and profits, rather than shading out the grass.
Field Notes
Increase your livestock profits by being a better sunshine farmer
Land is not of a fixed productive value. Capture more sunlight and you grow more grass without buying more land.
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Field Notes
How to create fertility without buying fertiliser.
Grasslands aren’t fertiliser-deficient when they perform poorly, any more than people are statin-deficient. Where fertility really comes from.
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