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Does Your Farm need Working Dogs?

Summary

The idea of working dogs on our farm came in a rather unique way. In the mid 1980s I won a grant to study organic agriculture in the British Isles. Michael and I visited dozens of farms throughout Great Britain and Ireland and learned about their agricultural systems. We found that one of the biggest differences was that their farms tended to be more diverse and usually contained some pasture-based livestock systems. Virtually every farm had some working dogs.