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Learning management-intensive grazing practices

Purdue Extension is offing a workshop to teach livestock producers how to incorporate management-intensive grazing programs on their farms.  The Grazing 102 workshop focuses on understanding plant growth and development, soil fertility, forage identification and use, extending the grazing season, etc.

In a management-intensive grazing system, producers rotate animals to different parts of the pasture to avoid overgrazing.  The programs maximize pasture productivity and minimize trampling losses.  Speakers include Purdue Extension forage specialist Keith Johnson and Robert Zupancic, grazing land specialist with the US Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service. 

The two-day conference is June 7 and 8 at the Southern Indiana Purdue Agricultural Center in Dubois. 

Registration of $50 per person is due by May 31. The cost covers reference materials, speaker notes, management tools, refreshments and lunch on the second day. Registration for additional attendees from the same farm is $25 per person, but they will not receive reference materials or management tools