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Farmbrite
- May 17
- 3 min
Cow Gestation Calculator
How long does a cow's pregnancy last? Cow gestation period (length of pregnancy) last on average is 283 days, however this period does...
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Farmbrite
- Mar 18
- 4 min
Bad Ass Women of Farming
The women who have added to the beauty and robustness of agriculture are vast and we want to celebrate them.
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Lydia Noyes
- Jan 26
- 4 min
The Beginner’s Guide to Keeping Livestock Records
When it comes to running your own business, staying on top of record keeping is a constant challenge. You may have entered the farming...
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Farmbrite
- Jan 6
- 6 min
Hay y'all! Estimating your hay needs.
How much hay do you need to store for the winter? Estimating how much hay you need for the winter is an important factor in most cattle,...
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Georgie Smith
- Nov 16, 2021
- 5 min
Getting Started Raising Rabbits for Meat
Meat rabbits are an easy, low-maintenance and, pound-for-pound, extremely productive livestock to add to a farm operation. Rabbits don’t...
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Georgie Smith
- Aug 30, 2021
- 4 min
6 Steps to Getting Your Farm Organic Certified
6 Steps to Getting your Farm Organic Certified. Organic certification is currently the “gold standard” in food production when it comes to
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Georgie Smith
- Aug 30, 2021
- 4 min
A Beginners Guide to Sheep & Lamb Farming
Lamb, Mutton, Sheep or All of the Above? There's a lot to think about when starting a new farming endeavor. Let's get basic, a lamb is...
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Lydia Noyes
- Aug 19, 2021
- 4 min
5 Top Regenerative Practices to Introduce To Your Farm
Regenerative agriculture offers real hope for a more sustainable future. It’s easier than you think to implement.
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Georgie Smith
- Jul 28, 2021
- 4 min
How to Start a Successful Small Scale Poultry Farm Business
Turning a love for poultry into a viable small farm business takes strategic thinking and some realistic number crunching. Large...
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Georgie Smith
- Jul 16, 2021
- 5 min
What to Know BEFORE Going to a Cattle Auction
It's auction day and it's easy to get caught up in the auction adrenaline! Here's what to know.
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Georgie Smith
- Jul 14, 2021
- 5 min
4 Livestock Breeding Best Practices to Implement in Your Herd — or Flock!
When starting a livestock breeding program, the essential step is setting clear goals that you’re breeding for. Here are 4 ways to help.
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Georgie Smith
- Apr 13, 2021
- 4 min
The Best Feed for Your Goat Herd
Goats are famous for “eating anything,” but in reality, proper nutrition for a thriving goat herd is complicated. What you should feed...
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Farmbrite
- Feb 24, 2021
- 5 min
Simplify Livestock Identification with Electronic RFID/EID Tags and Readers
RFID tags, or Radio Frequency Identification is a way of tracking your cattle, sheep, pigs or other herd animals through scanning a tag..
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Farmbrite
- Jan 20, 2021
- 1 min
15 Tricks to Streamline your poultry farm - Using Farmbrite
We've collected 15 of the top ways that our customers use our software.
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Janine Russell
- Dec 15, 2020
- 6 min
Farm Financing
We've already talked about how small farms can get into trouble but what about funding? If you're ready to get started and need some help.
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Farmbrite
- Dec 10, 2020
- 9 min
7 mistakes new farmers make - and how to succeed as a new farmer
Farming is hard, but incredibly important and rewarding work. Over the years we've talked with and helped lots of farmers to grow and...
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Farmbrite
- Nov 19, 2020
- 3 min
12 tips for keeping chickens in the winter
1.) Light it up If you want to have them lay all year you will need to supplement their light. They need between 14-16 hours of light to...
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Farmbrite
- Jul 24, 2020
- 5 min
How regenerative mob grazing can improve your pasture health.
Mob grazing is a term used to describe ultra-high density grazing. Another way to think about this is working to mimic the grazing of...
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- Jul 9, 2020
- 3 min
Recording your data, hands free on the farm
On the Farmbrite blog we talk a lot about how easy it is to collect farm and ranch data in Farmbrite. You can even use the Farmbrite...
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