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Moving Forward with
Soil HealthGabe Brown
Brown’s RanchBismarck, ND
Ranch GoalSustainability Through Soil Health
Season-long to Planned Grazing
Converting CRP to Grazing
BEFORE
Converting CRP to Grazing
AFTER
Recovery-Based Grazing
High Stock Density
Strip Grazing for Soil Health
Automatic Gate Opener
Grazing Tall…Improving Soil Health
Livestock Integration
Extending the Grazing Seasonwith Cover Crops
Tillage
No-till
The Answer is to Imitate Native Range
Diversity in the Cropping System
Diversity Above & Below Ground
Never a Monoculture
2 – Way CombinationsWinter Triticale & Hairy Vetch
Plants Interacting with Mycorrhizal Fungi
►Assists with P uptake from the soil
►Moves P from the non-legume plant to the legume plant
►Moves N from the legume plant to the non-legume plant
The Nature and Property of Soils, Brady and Weil
Nodules Fixing Nitrogen
Tracking Organic Matter…
Upward Trend
Improving Organic Matter
Continual Live Root 24/7
Large Radish
Cool Season Cocktail
Warm Season Cocktail
Tumble Wheel
Cowpea & Millet
Cowpea & Sudan Grass
Mechanical Harvest
Livestock Harvest
Bare Ground?
Foreground – Chopped Cowpea/Sudan
Spring 2008Planting into grazed Cowpea/Millet
Animal vs. Mechanical
Does harvest method affect crop response?
Harvesting Cover Crops
Grazing 2007 91 bu/ac Corn (’08) 1 Herbicide Application Value of additional
nutrients from manure?
Chopping 2007 68 bu/ac Corn (’08) 2 Herbicide Applications Value of nutrients
hauled away?
Winter Grazing – First Choice
Bale Grazing – Second Choice
Resource ConcernBare Ground
Implementing Bale Grazing
July 2, 2009
Baled GrazedConcentrated Area
Non-Bale Grazed
Quality & Quantity Comparison
Bale Grazed
► 8573 lbs/ac
► 11.9% Crude Protein
► 59.4 TDN
Non-Bale Grazed
► 2559 lbs/ac
► 7.9% Crude Protein
► 60.7 TDN
Harvest The Sunlight, Feed The SoilTie the Grazing and Cropping Systems Together