Cows Eat Weeds Book and Edible Weeds & Training Recipe booklet

In 2004, Kathy Voth began developing a method to teach cows to eat weeds. Her first attempt was with a small herd at Grant-Kohrs National Historic Site in Deer Lodge, Montana. She taught them to eat Canada thistle, Leafy spurge and Spotted knapweed. Since then she’s trained over 1,000 cattle, some sheep, goats, and a herd of Ted Turner’s bison to eat many of our most problematic weeds.

The process is based on animal behavior principles and takes just 8 hours spread over 7 days. Trained animals teach their offspring and herd mates and go on to try other weeds in pasture. They remember for years, so do it once and you’re done. (Have you ever heard that from an herbicide salesperson?)

Check out my YouTube channel for videos of the training process in action.

You can train your livestock to eat weeds with this two-ebook set:

Cows Eat Weeds covers the science behind the training process and the challenges and solutions to them from my ten years of training livestock across the U.S. and Canada.

Edible Weeds & Training Recipe is a quick-start guide to putting together your own training process. It includes a list of 142 weeds, describing whether they are edible or not, with tips on how to approach training for them. If you don’t find your weed here, email Kathy at kathyvoth@icloud.com and she’ll look up your weed for you!