Grassroots of Grazing School
Two days with the author of Management Intensive Grazing and kick the Hay Habit!
It all begins with your personal goals to prepare you for initial planning. Jim will explain the role of soil, plants, sunlight, pastures and the animals that harvest nature's solar panels -- the grass.
- Learn how to figure the carrying capacity of animals on pasture.
- How to build a better solar panel. What you can do to make every drop of water count.
- How to utilize electric fence, water systems and grazing cell design.
- And Jim will explain why biodiversity matters.
Also covered will be
- When to set up fixed vs. flexible grazing cells.
- Strategies for year-around grazing.
- How to kick the hay habit and virtually eliminate this costly input.
- How to match livestock with forage resources. How to stockpile winter feed and use annuals to extend the grazing season.
- And, most importantly, how to keep infrastructure costs reasonable.
JIM GERRISH currently lives in Idaho where he manages a ranch unit consisting of 450 center-pivot, irrigated pastures, 90 acres of flood ground, and several hundred acres of rangeland. He also spent 22 years in north-central Missouri at the University of Missouri-Forage Systems Resource Center researching and emphasizing sustainability with family farms including his own.
"This seminar was absolutely worth the cost and 500 mile drive. Jim answered all my questions and made me think about other things!"
Harvey Schulte
"This is the best course I have taken in ten years."
John Ewanek
"A class like this is going to help make the ranch more profitable."
Brandi Carlon
"Jim Gerrish is very good at putting the practical numbers to it. He knows them backwards and forwards."