EP: 427 Save Big on Animal Feed: Historical Fodder for Today w/ Deanne Converse
Pioneering Today
Melissa K Norris
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🗓️ 19 April 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Join me with my guest Deanne Converse as we discuss ways to become more self-sustainable with our livestock feed costs. Deanne is sharing her years of experience in feeding livestock without the feed store. With the rise in feed costs over the past few years, this is one podcast you won’t want to miss. We’re not only talking about how to feed cattle, but chickens, pigs, sheep, goats and more. For more information and any links mentioned in this episode, visit https://melissaknorris.com/427.
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| 0:00.0 | If you want to learn how to use herbs medicinally and not only medicinally but also grow them, |
| 0:06.4 | I can think of little else that gets me excited as knowing I can literally grow our medicine right outside our back door, then you, my friend, are going to want to make |
| 0:16.2 | sure that you are registered and signed up for our herbal summer series. This is completely free, though you definitely could charge for it because it is |
| 0:28.2 | packed with information. Once you sign up starting in August, every week you are going to get an email from me going over my top 10 favorite herbs. |
| 0:40.0 | Each week we are going to pick one of those herbs and do a deep dive on how to grow that herb, |
| 0:47.8 | but more importantly, how to use it, including safety, and if you should use it or not if you are pregnant or breastfeeding. |
| 0:56.9 | We go through all of the cautions, the medicinal properties, and its uses. |
| 1:02.1 | So when you get done done you will have in your pocket and hopefully by |
| 1:06.2 | that point in your medicine cabinet my favorite top 10 herbs to always have at the ready. Go to Melissa K Norris.com forward slash |
| 1:18.2 | summer herb and make sure that you get registered. Summer school is in session and it has never been better. Hey pioneers. Welcome to episode number 427. Today's episode we are going to be |
| 1:38.8 | diving into talking about ways beyond buying feed from the feed store or conventional ways of feeding your livestock. |
| 1:48.0 | So if you are looking for ways to get away from the feed store, to be more self-sufficient or sustainable with your feed as well as |
| 1:56.6 | lowering your feed costs, including looking at historical ways that people fed their animals very nutriciously and very well |
| 2:07.8 | when there were no large feed stores, then you are going to love today's episode. |
| 2:14.1 | Today's episode, we are interviewing |
| 2:16.5 | Diane Converse. |
| 2:18.4 | She is a native of the Northwest |
| 2:21.0 | and is passionate about sharing how to grow and feed livestock top-notch nutritious food |
| 2:27.0 | that anyone can sustainably produce on any scale. So we shouldn't have to be caught up in choosing to raise livestock or not because of the cost |
| 2:37.1 | or quality of available commercial feeds or if hay doesn't fit into your budget, especially if you listen to my episode last week |
| 2:44.8 | episode number 426 where we were talking about beef cattle and the way that hay prices have increased |
| 2:50.3 | dramatically over the past few years, then you are going to adore today's topic. |
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