Education

A core leg of the Exchange: curated partner teaching on covers, bringing livestock back, managed grazing, silvopasture, and shrinking diesel and fertilizer. We summarize and credit; the full piece lives on the author's site.

50 resources from OSU, Penn State, Kentucky, WVU, SARE, OEFFA, and Stratford — lined up with FarmTec / Stinner fossil-fuel themes.

Theme

All themes Cover crops & forage Integrating livestock Cutting fossil-fuel inputs Managed grazing Equipment & on-farm energy Silvopasture

Source

All partners OSU Extension (14)Penn State Ext. (13)UK Extension (5)WVU Extension (4)SARE (4)OEFFA (6)Stratford (4)

SARE

4 resources

Let’s Talk! Integrating Crops & Livestock (infographic narrative)
USDA Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) · 2022
Authors: Green Lands Blue Waters and SARE
Spectrum from hauling cover forage to temporary fence and in-field grazing — grazing cuts fuel, equipment wear, and manure-handling compared with mechanical harvest and feedlot feeding.
Integrating livestockCover crops & forageCutting fossil-fuel inputsManaged grazing
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Maximizing Integrated Crop & Livestock Systems Value
SARE / Green Lands Blue Waters · August 2022
Authors: Laura Paine, Amy Fenn, Jane Jewett, and Erin Meier
Midwest Forage Association piece from a SARE-funded project: grazing aftermath and covers saves stored feed, labor, and manure handling that enterprise accounting often misses.
Integrating livestockCutting fossil-fuel inputsCover crops & forage
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Grazing Cover Crops (Managing Cover Crops Profitably, Ch. 12)
USDA Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE)
Authors: SARE
SARE chapter on why grazing is often the fastest path to making covers pay: cool- and warm-season windows, MiG moves that limit trampling, and how manure and saliva feed soil biology while cutting hay dependence.
Integrating livestockCover crops & forageManaged grazingCutting fossil-fuel inputs
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2026 National Cover Crop Survey Report
USDA Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) · 2026
Authors: SARE, CTIC, and ASTA
About one in three cover-crop users grazed or fed covers; 77% of those graziers said it improved profitability. Survey highlights fencing, water, and virtual fence as the next barriers to scale.
Cover crops & forageIntegrating livestockCutting fossil-fuel inputs
Read on the source site

Suggest a resource

Educators and members: point us at a fact sheet, bulletin, or farm tour write-up. Hosts curate before it lands on the shelf — we need the outlink and author credit.

Attribution

Every card names the authors and publisher and links to their post, PDF, or project page. Summaries are written for the Exchange; they are not reprints.