Tools

• Grazing Chart

  • Paper Chart  to plan, record actual, monitor, replan, record actual.  Do not erase!

  • Digital Chart 

  • Holistic Management Grazing Planning 

  • Pasture Map

  • Maia Grazing

• Historical Ranch Grazing Records  

• Stocking Rate Calculations - UC ANR Stocking Rates California 

• Historical Precipitation Records, Long Range Forecasts : Weather West 

• Maps - Aerial, Topographic, Infrastructure 

Free Online Resources

• About Holistic Planned Grazing - Savory 

• Grazier’s Arithmetic  & Grazier's Math and Calculator: Matching Forage to Animal Demand

• Growing Abundant Rangelands 

• Holistic Management International - free downloads 

• Noble Institute

• Rangeland Health and Planned Grazing Field Guide

• TomKat Ranch list of resources

Articles

• The Most Effective Pasture Renovation Ever 

• Manure Scoring 

• The Other Grazers

• 11 Grazing Tips Learned from Top Managers

Books And Subscriptions

• Grass-Fed Cattle: How to Produce and Market Natural Beef.  Ruechel, Julius

• Holistic Management Handbook, Third Edition 

• The Art and Science of Grazing

• Stockman Grassfarmer 

Classes And Courses

• Holistic Management International

• Integrity Soils - Grazing For Life

• Savory

Monitoring Tools

• Barn Owl - water trough, livestock etc. monitoring 

• BCS- Body Condition Score

• Brix Meter 

• Digital maps Pasture Map, Mia Grazing

• Grazing Exclosures 

• Grazing stick for estimating forage available.   Effective in uniform pastures

• Livestock scale 

• Photo documentation,  Solo locator

• Plantimeter, Google Earth

• Short term: Weather Underground 

• Parasites - FORMACHA 

• Virtual Fence - Halter, No Fence, 

• Weigh tape