All Flesh Is Grass: The Pleasures and Promises of Pasture Farming
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| Rating | : | 4.88 (699 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0804010692 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Grasses, clovers, and forbs are the natural diet of cattle, horses, and sheep, and are vital supplements for hogs, chickens, and turkeys. In All Flesh Is Grass: The Pleasures and Promises of Pasture Farming, Gene Logsdon explains that well-managed pastures are nutritious and palatablevirtual salads for livestock. Leafy pastures also hold the soil, foster biodiversity, and create lovely landscapes. His narrative is enriched by his own experience as a contrary farmer” on his artisan-scale farm near Upper Sandusky, Ohio.All Flesh Is Grass will have broad appeal to the sustainable commercial farmer, the home-food producer, and all consumers who care about their food.. Grass farming might be the solution for a stressed agricultural system based on an industrial model and propped up by federal subsidies. His warm, informative profiles of successful grass farmers offer inspiration and ideas. Amidst Mad Cow scares and consumer concerns about how farm animals are bred, fed, and raised, many farmers and homesteaders are rediscovering the traditional practice of pastoral farming. Consumers increasingly seek the health benefits of meat from animals
His arguments against grain feeding: the too-heavy investment in machinery for sowing and harvesting of grain, the need for pesticides to protect monocultural grain crops, the environmental costs required to haul grain to livestock farmers, storage costs, the need to dispose of manure from livestock feedlots, and the steep labor costs to manage all of this. His arguments for pasturing: "The animals do the harvesting, apply their manure for fertilizer, and eat most of the weeds." As it has for years, Logsdon's conversational style makes his material immediately appealing, but there is also solid advice on how to pasture various kinds of livestock (cattle, sheep, goats, hogs, horses, mules, donkeys, chickens, ducks, ge
"All Flesh Is Grass by Gene Logsdon" according to David G. All Flesh Is Grass by Gene LogsdonThis book is a must read/own for anyone considering grass farming (pasture based livestock). In the book he discusses:How to set up a rotation of pasturesWhich plants he prefers and ones that will do well in other climatesHow to graze the pasturesWhat problems specific pastures (plant type) might pose to livestockHow to cut pastures for hay and silageHow to seed past. Different Grass Types catamount I have All Flesh Is Grass and also Joel Salatin's Salad Bar Beef.As a new farmer, I have never raised cattle before and my future pasture is currently woodland. So I need to know what to plant to get pasture started. In All Flesh Is Grass, Logsdon discusses different grass types (eg: the difference between bluegrass and fescue) and also discusses grazing for goats, pigs, and sheep. This is the inform. "Enjoyable Read" according to Brian Duffy. I would rate this a Enjoyable Read Brian Duffy I would rate this a 4.5.While it seems that Mr. Logsdon was writing this to a wide audience, beginning to experienced farmers, the usefulness seems to be for someone who has been small scale farming for a few years. This is because Lodgeson points out his mistakes and explains how his modifications improved his farm. Similarly, one would see the same mistakes in their enterprise and have a much fulle. .5.While it seems that Mr. Logsdon was writing this to a wide audience, beginning to experienced farmers, the usefulness seems to be for someone who has been small scale farming for a few years. This is because Lodgeson points out his mistakes and explains how his modifications improved his farm. Similarly, one would see the same mistakes in their enterprise and have a much fulle