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agement is the adoption of adaptive grazing practices. This has been time tested and works extremely well if you implement it properly. If you do not fully understand adaptive grazing, then take time to educate yourself. You cannot implement what you do not know. Results of Positive Epigenetics By managing your farm or ranch to influence positive epi genetics, you create livestock that have tremendous vigor, im munity, proper phenotype and resilience. Why are these cattle still performing when other cattle in the region have long since failed? They have strong epigenetics that allow them to survive and thrive when others have long since failed. Summary If you want to build very positive epigenetics on your farm or ranch, it is as simple as implementing the principles and practic es that have been proven to build superior epigenetics. You are not going to build that by buying the “right” bull or heifers. You are not going to do it through artificial insemination or embryo transfer. You are not going to do it through feeding some “silver bullet” supplement or some secret soil microbial treatment. There is only one way to accomplish the building of superi or epigenetics. Learn, implement and practice routinely the Six Principles and the Three Rules. For additional beneficial reading, go to https://understandingag.com/practical-genetics-knock ing-out-the-props/ . Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in The Stockman Grass Farmer Magazine. SGF is a happy to send a free sample issue to anyone who is interested in learning more. Contact them at (800) 748-9808, www.stockmangrassfarmer.com or SGFSAMPLE@AOL.com. BB

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