

Improve Herd Health with Abundant Clean Water
Livestock Drinking Dirty Water is Not Good For Herd Health Humans don’t drink dirty water and neither should your livestock. Aristotle recognized the value of boiling water and burying feces to prevent disease back in 350BC. We’ve been learning ever since. Just as with human health, herd health improves with...
Why Do Farmers Fence Their Livestock Out of Streams?
Why do farmers fence their livestock from ponds, streams, and wetlands? Of the hundreds of farmers I have talked to that have done it these are the top four reasons:
-
“If you want to understand the perspective of a dedicated cattle farmer, educated ecologist, and water-quality specialist, this is the book for you!
Turn these pages and feel the frost on your nose in winter, hear quail calling in the spring, taste a homegrown tomato in the summer, and watch Monarch butterflies fuel up on nectar in the fall. . . . truly spectacular stuff!”
George Ohrstrom II
Founder, The Downstream Project
Recent Posts
Blog Post Categories
- Atlantic Coast Pipeline
- Birding
- Cattle Farming
- Chesapeake Bay
- Climate Change
- Conservation Easements
- Electric Vehicles
- Endangered Species
- Environmental Justice
- Herd Health
- Hydrofracking
- Invasive Species
- Nature
- Nutrient Management
- Quail Habitat
- Renewable Energy
- Riparian Buffers
- Riparian Forest Buffers Ebook
- Soil and Water Conservation
- Soil Erosion
- Solar
- Stream Fencing
- Swoope Almanac
- Trees
- Trump
- Uncategorized
- Val Our Border Collie
- Water Pollution
- Watershed restoration
- Whiskey Creek
- Whiskey Creek Almanac
- Whiskey Creek Angus
- Whiskey Creek Angus
- Whiskey Creek Regenerative Farming
- Wildlife