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Cultivating Climate Resilience cover imagewww.sare.org resources cultivating-climate-resilience-on-farms-and-ranches

Cultivating Climate Resilience on Farms and Ranches

Cultivating Climate Resilience on Farms and Ranches outlines the new challenges that changing weather patterns pose in agriculture throughout the United States, and what you can do to make your...

download the investing in the next generation of agricultural scientists report in PDF formatwww.sare.org resources investing-in-the-next-generation-of-agricultural-scientists

Investing in the Next Generation of Agricultural Scientists

The challenges that farmers and ranchers face today are growing more and more complex, and the cornerstone of the SARE program is the idea that sustainable solutions to these challenges...

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The Small Ruminant Toolbox

Sheep and goat enterprises offer diversification opportunities for small and limited-resource farmers. This Small Ruminant Toolbox was developed by the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) in order to provide...

Avicultura Rentable cover featuring three pictures of a family, chickens, and a machine.www.sare.org resources avicultura-rentable

Avicultura Rentable

Avicultura Rentable: Criando Aves en Pasturas es una guía que incluye experiencias de agricultores  y lo último en investigación para criar pollos y pavos usando corrales, cercos portátiles y pasturas....

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Farm to Hospital Toolkit

This twelve-part document contains tools that farmers, ranchers and hospitals can use as they work to increase direct hospital purchases from local farmers.

Profitable Poultry bulletinwww.sare.org resources profitable-poultry

Profitable Poultry

Profitable Poultry: Raising Birds on Pasture features farmer experiences plus the latest research in a guide to raising chickens and turkeys using pens, movable fencing and pastures. A Wisconsin family nets between...

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Sustainable Control of Internal Parasites in Small Ruminant Production

Sheep and goat production is a growing enterprise for small and limited resource farmers. Small ruminants (sheep and goats) are adaptable to many different production systems and can be raised...

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Video: Basic Goat Hoof Care

A video, Basic Goat Hoof Care, developed by Kentucky State University on the basics of goat hoof care.   Want more information? See the SARE related grants (ES04-075), "Regional Goat...

Goats feeding on forageswww.sare.org resources video-body-condition-scoring-of-goats

Video: Body Condition Scoring of Goats

Body condition scoring (BCS) is a simple, fast method of assessing the overall condition, or the thinness or fatness, of goats. It provides an indication of available fat reserves that...

Cover page of an article entitled "Rangeland Management Strategies" featuring a photo of a man riding a horse through a fieldwww.sare.org resources rangeland-management-strategies

Rangeland Management Strategies

Features innovative SARE-funded research on creating and sustaining a healthy range. Throughout, researchers and ranchers share goals and successes in winter and multi-species grazing, managing forage and other vegetation and protecting...

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Dairy Your Way

This publication was created to provide information that will help producers explore the many choices available for today’s dairy farms. This book is not intended to be a how-to dairy...

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In-House Composting in High-Rise, Caged Layer Facilities

Manure handling, storage, and disposal are common problems facing poultry producers in the United States. Fly and odor control, urban encroachment, a limited nearby land base for manure disposal, and...

Estrategias Economico-Ambientales en la Crianza de Cerdoswww.sare.org resources estrategias-economico-ambientales-en-la-crianza-de-cerdos

Estrategias Economico-Ambientales en la Crianza de Cerdos

Granjeros que quieren producir puercos con éxito en pequeña escala pueden preservar su independencia de cara a la industria de puercos en proceso de consolidación. Estrategias Económico-Ambientales en la Crianza de...

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Profitable Pork

Farmers who want to successfully produce pork on a small scale can preserve their independence in the face of the consolidating hog industry. Profitable Pork: Alternative Strategies for Hog Producers...

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Poultry Your Way

Poultry Your Way is for anyone interested in commercially raising, processing, and marketing poultry. It is designed to help you consider alternatives, and to help you make decisions about which...

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Organic parasite control

Signs of parasites, prevention, National Organic Program standards, and more. You will need Adobe Presenter to view.  ...

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FAMACHA

FAMACHA is a diagnostic tool to help farmers identify parasite infection in small ruminants, such as sheep and goats. The tool is a chart that matches eyelid color to anemia...

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Sustainable Year-Round Forage Production and Grazing/Browsing Management in the Southern Region

Pasture-based goat production is becoming one of the important enterprises for livestock farmers in the Southeastern U.S. However, most livestock farmers have not adopted sustainable forage programs and depend on...

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Dealing with Summer Heat in Free-Range Poultry

As temperatures increase in the summer, special attention needs to be paid to birds maintained on pasture. This fact sheet, developed by University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension, explores ways to...

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Winterization for the Poultry Farm

A fact sheet developed by the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension on ways to winterize poultry houses. Winterization for the Poultry Farm.pdf 68.89 kB...

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