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PFI Beginners summarize Gabe Brown’s grazing and cover crop talks at the 2012 Grassfed Exchange

Dave & Meg Schmidt are grazers in western Iowa. Dave wrote this summary to share with the PFI network. Meg [...]

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PFI is Hiring a Livestock Coordinator

PFI Grazing Coordinator Kevin Dietzel is headed for greener pastures — his new grass-based dairy Lost Lake Farm, and a [...]

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Cover Crops are really growing!

Cover crops are growing! If you’ve seen some bright green fields around the countryside then you are probably seeing some [...]

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Pasture walk at Garth Lloyd’s

Fourteen hardy folks gathered on Garth Lloyd’s farm in Scotland County, Missouri to go for a stroll and look at [...]

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A humbling lesson about bloat

This past weekend I lost a heifer to bloat. My first reaction was to keep this to myself, as this [...]

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Frantzen field day held; discussion of succession, energy, and purchasing a farm acreage

What does a beginning farmer need to do to get started with a small farm acreage? If you ask James [...]

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Mob Grazing Tour

On August 9-11, PFI partnered with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service and the Iowa Forage and Grassland Council to [...]

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Southern Iowa Sustainable Livestock Project

Sometimes I like to check out PFI members’ websites to find out more about their farms, their views, their marketing, [...]

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