Beef Cattle
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03/14/2023 SOURCE: www.publicnewsservice.org

Collaboration Grows 'Regenerative Ranching' Program in Northwest

By Caroline Tracey for Civil Eats.Broadcast version by Deborah Van Fleet for Missouri News Service reporting for the Solutions Journalism Network-Public News Service Collaboration Jack Southworth’s ranch sits at 4,600 feet in elevation outside Seneca, Oregon, near the Strawberry and Blue mountain ranges. Like many ranchers, his cattle graze private, deeded land in the winter and leased National Forest land in the summer, including a high mountain plateau filled with bluebunch wheatgrass and Idaho fescue and surrounded by Ponderosa Pine forest. Since the valley is “good at collecting cold air,” as Southworth put it, it has a short growing season, and if cattle stay too long in any given place, they will eat the grass down to bare ground, creating conditions for soil erosion. ...

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A new type of beef-on-dairy: Holstein x Akaushi

Akaushi cattle.A head-scratcher, isn’t it? Pronounced A-KOO-SHI, these red-hided Japanese cattle – nicknamed the “Emperor’s Breed” – were introduced to the U.S. beef industry in the early 1990s and have started inching their way into the dairy scene, starting with MoDak Dairy in Goodwin, South Dakota.

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TOPIC(S): Markets/Pricing, Agriculture US, Beef Cattle, Ranching,

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