Grassroots of Grazing (audio) with Jim Gerrish
Two days with the author of Management Intensive Grazing and Kick the Hay Habit!
Covered in the two day school is
- 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.
- why biodiversity matters.
- 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.
- how to keep infrastructure costs reasonable.
Buy it now; listen whenever you want...
This is an “On-demand” training that you can access at any time.
Once your payment is submitted, you will receive an email with your login details on where you’ll be able to access the training.
It is a go at your own pace training so you don’t have to worry about missing anything.
What students are saying...
Bonus #1
spreadsheet calculators created by Jim (not sold separately)
- Annual Pasture Seed Cost
- Birth Date
- Cattle Hauling
- Cool-Season Pasture Establishment
- Cost-Benefit as AUD and as ton
- Cow Depreciation
- Fence & Stock Water Cost
- Forage Demand
- Grazing Record template
- Grazing Resources & Stock Policy w/sheep and baseline
- Hay as fertilizer and cost
- Individual Tank Costs
- Irrigation Soil Survey Productivity & Stocking Rate
- and 12 more!
Bonus #2 & #3
Downloadable Audio Recording
Planning for Year Round Grazing
Jim Gerrish helps you plan by matching livestock and forage production cyles. Achieve a profitable operation by getting the hay out, stockpiling winter feed and effectively using winter pasture.
Understanding Stocking Ratio and Carrying Capacity
Jim Gerrish takes you through exercises to determine your target level of performance while maintaining the integrity of the resource base and the optimal stocking rate for your grazing unit.
"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."
Jaren Kerst
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.
What I see is that farming is being done smarter. People are using the resources they have more wisely. There are new ways to do things that will actually help you make a profit.
-Suzie Pooley Webb
Stockman Grassfarmer Business Manager
... And this is exactly what this school will allow you to do: work smarter and make a profit.
