Animal production systems in Washington range from small-scale, diverse poultry and small animal to large-scale extensive grazing systems to large-scale intensive animal feeding operations and include organic, conventional and “sustainable” production systems.
Featured Publications
Farmer-to-Farmer & Rancher-to-Rancher Case Studies Series
Authors include: Yorgey, G., Borrelli, K., Painter, K., Davis, H., Hall, S., Hudson, T., Neibergs, S., Reeves, M., Kruger, C., McGuire A., Finkelnburg, D., Roe, D., Brooks, E., and Kantor, S. 2016-2019. PNW Extension Publications and videos. These series explore strategies that innovative regional farmers and ranchers are using that enhance resilience to climate change and […]
Estimating climate change effects on grazing management and beef cattle production in the Pacific Northwest
JS Neibergs, TD Hudson, CE Kruger, K Hamel-Rieken. 2018. Climatic Change, 5-17.
Case Study: Evaluating farm processed canola and camelina meals as protein supplements for beef cattle
Llewellyn, D.A., G. Rohwer, O.S. Norberg, E. Kimura, J.S. Neibergs, and S.C. Fransen. 2015. J. of NACAA, 8(2).
Beefing Up the Palouse
Since 1985 the U.S. government has implemented the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) which pays farmers NOT to grow crops on millions of acres of highly erodable land. In addition to being a controversial program, much of this land is now coming out of CRP which puts pressure on farmers to grow crops in these areas […]
2008 Estimated Costs and Returns for a 150-head Cow-calf to Grass-finished Beef Production System in the Channelled Scablands Range Area of East-central Washington
In response to the popularity of grass-finished beef, this publication provides a production budget analysis using both ranch-owned and leased forage sources in eastern Washington to determine profitability. Funded by the William D. Ruckelshaus Center, the Beefing Up the Palouse pilot project applied a total systems approach to develop a replicable production model to help […]
Additional Publications
Reducing approximation error in the fourier flexible functional form (PDF)
Skolrud, T. 2015. WSU School of Economic Sciences working paper on technology issues associated with conventional dairies converting to organic.
Local Meats for Local Meals: An Assessment of Demand for a Mobile Slaughtering Unit in Pierce, King Kitsap and Thurston Counties, for the Puget Sound Meat Producers Cooperative – December 2008 (PDF)
Article in Sustaining the Pacific Northwest Newsletter
Diversifying the Family Farm – Spring 2008 (PDF)
Article in Sustaining the Pacific Northwest Newsletter
Pastured Poultry
Raising pastured poultry is a simple way to integrate livestock into small farms. A summary of experiences at WSU Puyallup with small-scale pastured poultry production on organically certified land from 2005-2007 is presented. The goal was to integrate pastured broilers into a vegetable-pasture rotation in an organic farming systems experiment.
Mobile Livestock Processing Unit Rolls into Northeast Washington – December 2006 (PDF)
Article in Sustaining the Pacific Northwest Newsletter
Organic Livestock: Principles, Practices, and Prospects
Videostream of October 29, 2004 WSU Satellite broadcast.
Mobile Meat Processing Popular with Communities – December 2003 (PDF)
Article in Sustaining the Pacific Northwest Newsletter
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External Links
- eXtension
- National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service (ATTRA) Master Publications List
- Plant and Life Sciences Publishing
- Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) Project Reports
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