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Ranching Like a 12-Year-Old

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Ranching Like a 12-Year-Old

Looking to improve your ranch and save time and money? In Ranching Like a 12-Year-Old, author Tom Krawiec shares his knowledge and experience to help you improve your grass, your herd, and your operations. understand the “sweet spot” and how planning can significantly improve yields how-to with paddocks and grazing charts water and fencing hacks for creating the space managing the herd, including multi-species mob grazing options on stockpiling for winter that save work tips on operations and economics make a living using less land in a way...

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Reviews on PageMaster Publishing

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Reviews can be helpful in understanding if a book is for you. The following screen shot shows reviews on the PageMasterPublishing.ca web store for Tom’s book on February 27, 2023 Click on the review image to purchase the book at PageMaster Publishing. The book is also available by ordering through your favorite bookseller.

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Ranching Like a 12-Year-Old: Embedded Videos Using QR Codes

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Ranching Like a 12-Year-Old includes links to some videos through QR codes. The quick response codes allow readers to scan and view videos illustrating the content on select pages of the paperback. The following image from Ranching Like a 12-Year-Old shows a QR code at the bottom of p. 140: Why and How? Many have labeled Ranching Like a 12-Year-Old a “handbook for ranching”, since it aims to enhance the knowledge of both new and old ranchers, and others who might be interested in the field of ranching. These videos are significant...

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Podcast interview on Working Cows

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Podcast interview on Working Cows

Listen to an interview on the Working Cows podcast by host  Clay Conry on “grazing in the sweet spot” plus more. Ep. 266 – Tom Krawiec – Ranching Like a 12 Year...

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How Ranching Like a 12-year-old Began

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How Ranching Like a 12-year-old Began

Like a 12-year-old started one summer with twoeager ranch hands. Here Tiffany, Heather, Tia and Tomenjoy a break. Here is some background on how I came to think the way I do. In January 2000, before we began farming, my wife and I attended a Holistic Resource Management (HRM) course. That summer we started grazing hogs, cattle, laying hens, turkeys, and horses. At the course, we were taught to keep our costs as low as possible. Following this thinking, we didn’t build any permanent fence or water systems; we built temporary paddocks and...

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