I love to see my pictures in such good company!

West Virginia University Extenstion staff, Chuck Talbott, Ed Rayburn and Rakesh Chandran, did a demonstration on Morgan Farm teaching cows to eat weeds.  One of the results was that Chuck told me he found that cows were already eating a lot more weeds in pasture than he thought they were.  I wrote earlier about how I helped them tweak their process a bit to make sure they were successful.

They put together a slide presentation called “Weeds, Monocultures and Monsanto…a time to embrace diversity.” They describe some of the benefits of cows eating weeds, and something about what they learned in the process.  Check it out and you’ll find the protein values for ironweed, spiny pigweed, smartweed, common lambsquarters, curly dock, Canada thistle, buttercup and mustard species (brassica spp.).  You’ll also find some good information about stocking rates and grazing.