Livestock Lessons 1.0 – Linking the Forage Chain With Nathan Anderson and Meghan Filbert

Make sure your cows work for you (not the other way around)! Meghan and Nathan discuss setting up expectations for grazing cover crops. Need livestock or more crop ground? Meghan talks about an exciting new “matchmaking” option for grazing cover crops.

Meghan Filbert is PFI's livestock program manager. Her expertise includes livestock integration into cropping systems, adaptive and holistic grazing, cover crop grazing, and meat marketing. Meghan is a beginning farmer in central Iowa where she uses goats and sheep to reclaim Iowa's native oak savanna ecosystem.

Nathan Anderson and his wife Sarah run Bobolink Prairie Farms in Cherokee County, Iowa where they raise corn, soybeans, small grains, hay and cattle. Nathan and his family started using cover crops in 2012 across their entire farm both for the soil benefits and as forage for livestock. Cover crops are an integral component of the farm’s grazing management.

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