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[Little River Pond Mill @Pondmill1983]

Goats are an excellent part of an integrated pest management plan

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The cheapest, most effective wildfire crew in California has four legs and eats the problem.

Clearing flammable brush off a steep slope by hand is brutal, slow, expensive work. A herd of goats is none of those things.

Hand clearance:

- Around 28,000 dollars an acre
- People with tools on dangerous slopes
- Cuttings that then have to be hauled away

A herd of goats:

- Roughly 500 to 1,000 dollars an acre
- Climbs slopes no crew wants to touch
- Eats the brush to a firebreak and fertilises the ground on the way through
- Reaches branches several feet up
- Visibly thrilled to be at work

Calling the goat a quaint throwback has it backwards. On this job the goat is the superior technology by a factor of about fifty, and it runs on the very scrub everyone else is paying to remove.

[Little River Pond Mill @Pondmill1983]

This field day is coming up fast. Once your dugout is in, we can help you manage water quality through effective pond and riparian management tools. #LittleRiverPondMill #dugout #water_quality #pasture #livestock #agriculture

[Sask Agriculture @SKAgriculture]

It's not too late to register for our free Summer Watering Field Day at Old Wives Pasture on June 11.

Join us to learn about water quality, building new dugouts, funding opportunities and more: https://t.co/qXhUCIWZp5

[Little River Pond Mill @Pondmill1983]

An intercropping example to improve forage quality and possibly soil health.

[Western Livestock Journal @wljnet]

Could planting wheat or oats directly into dormant grassland improve forage quality and soil health? Researchers with Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service say pasture cropping is showing promise in the right environments. https://t.co/1Is76QA6bk

[Sask Agriculture @SKAgriculture]

Beneficial Management Practices (BMPs) keep Saskatchewan’s soil health in great condition.

To learn more about soil health in the province, check out: https://t.co/8dCa9i66Rt

#SaskAG

[Sask Agriculture @SKAgriculture]

Testing your sprayer water source is the first step to ensuring you are getting the most out of your herbicide application.

Learn more about water quality here: https://t.co/3Rq0lNtUHL

#SaskAG

[Little River Pond Mill @Pondmill1983]

With over 43 years of expertise behind our name, we can help fix your water quality and provide sound advice & equipment for dugout management & we have a PAg ready to provide assistance. Begin by getting some good in-field info. from provincial experts at this field day event.

[Sask Agriculture @SKAgriculture]

Got summer watering questions?

Join us at our summer watering systems field day on June 11 at the Old Wives Community Pasture to learn about funding opportunities and more.

Register at: https://t.co/qXhUCIWZp5

#SaskAG

[Sask Agriculture @SKAgriculture]

Spring is here and soon the pivots will be running.

Make sure your water is suitable for crop production by sending a water sample to any regional office for a detailed salinity analysis.

Learn more about water sampling here: https://t.co/GygF98rAws

#SaskAg

[Sask Agriculture @SKAgriculture]

Water quality plays a key role in livestock health and productivity. Regular testing provides peace of mind and can help address concerns.

Submit your water samples at a regional office or find a drop off point near you: https://t.co/Azr04oYjJI

#SaskAG

[Sask Agriculture @SKAgriculture]

Join the two-day Native Prairie Appreciation Week Tour for hands-on native plant and bird identification sessions.

Learn in the field, ask questions and discover the species that call the prairies home.

Register today: https://t.co/v1jk8O2rhI

#SaskAG

[Little River Pond Mill @Pondmill1983]

Very wise words; interesting how you can put other country names in to replace Australia & these words are still relevant. We all want more stability & self sufficiency where we live so bringing back those things that helped make us that way is a good start. It's about community.

[CRToney🧢 @CRToney2]

Self sufficiency is a good thing

[Sask Agriculture @SKAgriculture]

Although kochia is a challenging weed to manage, incorporating well adapted forage species can provide a long term, sustainable solution.

Learn about management solutions for kochia in our latest Sask Ag Now article: https://t.co/3oZwywLDbF

#SaskAG

[Little River Pond Mill @Pondmill1983]

Preserving native rangeland helps to enhance species diversity and longterm sustainability of ecosystems.

[Sask Agriculture @SKAgriculture]

#DYK that in 2025, 35 km of cross fence was built with the purpose of preserving native rangeland?

It was funded through the Resilient Landscape Agriculture Program as part of the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership.

Learn more: https://t.co/Qr31JLUSX8

#SaskAG

[Sask Agriculture @SKAgriculture]

#DYK that in 2025, 35 km of cross fence was built with the purpose of preserving native rangeland?

It was funded through the Resilient Landscape Agriculture Program as part of the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership.

Learn more: https://t.co/Qr31JLUSX8

#SaskAG

[Little River Pond Mill @Pondmill1983]

Very well put...food for thought...pun intended

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Let's be clear about what the Ruminati are, because the name was chosen for us by a newsletter that meant it as a criticism and we kept it.

Gerald is a bull. He eats grass on land that has been permanent pasture since 1763. The grass converts sunlight and rain into protein. Gerald converts the grass into beef, manure, and seven wildflower species in a south corner that had none of them before he arrived. His methane is the carbon that was in the grass two weeks ago and will be back in the grass in twelve years. This has been the arrangement for the entirety of cattle domestication and the net carbon position of British permanent pasture over that period is: improving.

Doris is a ewe. She eats fell grass that grows on land too steep, too thin, too wet, and too acidic for any crop ever suggested by anyone who has actually looked at it. She maintains the open sward structure that forty-seven plant communities and three red-listed bird species depend on. Without her, the fell becomes purple moor grass. It has been tested. There is a control fell. The control fell has been ungrazed since 2004. The control fell has purple moor grass and no skylarks.

Keith is a goat. He eats the things Gerald and Doris won't touch: bramble, knotweed, dock, thistle, rush, ivy stems, and whatever is happening in Steve's garden. His rumen handles tannins and oxalates that would damage a dog's liver. He converts material that would otherwise advance unchecked across the British countryside into cheese, manure, and a net outcome column that has been positive on every row since entry seventeen.

They are not destroying the planet.

They are the planet.

This distinction has been available in every field in Britain since before the policy documents existed.

Nobody thought to look in the fields.

The fields are still there.

[Sask Agriculture @SKAgriculture]

During International Year of the Woman farmer, we’re celebrating the women whose leadership, innovation and hard work continue to strengthen the agriculture sector.

#SaskAG #WomenInAg

[Little River Pond Mill @Pondmill1983]

This is devastating news. So much awesome non-biased research no longer to be done??? I'm really worried about the elimination of the organic research being done out of Swift Current.
https://t.co/TXFx2ay7CQ

[Little River Pond Mill @Pondmill1983]

@SKAgriculture @AAFC_Canada So what is going to happen to this given the just mentioned Fed. Ag funding cuts? In one door and out the next???

[Little River Pond Mill @Pondmill1983]

@SKAgriculture So not speed dating but rather a
Speed Q and A session

[Little River Pond Mill @Pondmill1983]

@SKAgriculture Where in Moose Jaw is this being held?
Do you have a link?

[Little River Pond Mill @Pondmill1983]

@JBeercann @Mapleleaves83 @FoodProfessor Read up a little on how the quota system works.