Small Ruminant Webinar on planning your grazing system
Gene Schriefer
Megan Nelson, Extension Livestock Program Manager, megan....@wisc.edu
Gene Schriefer, Ag Educator, gene.sc...@wisc.edu
Small Ruminant Webinar on Planning Your Grazing System
Madison, WI – Managed grazing offers multiple benefits. For the small ruminant owner, it remains a least cost way to feed our livestock and contribute to enterprise and farm profit. Well managed pastures also rapidly infiltrates water compared with crop land and poorly managed pasture, reducing some flooding from high intensity rainfall events, and stores this water for future use. Managed pasture provides habitat for insects and pollinators, which in turn support healthy grassland bird populations. Healthy pastures have healthy soils and feed healthy livestock.
The April 21st, 7:30 p.m. webinar, Planning Your Grazing System, is designed to help producers get started with managed grazing and will focus upon decisions that sheep and goat owners need to make in developing an effective grazing system for your farm. How many sheep or goats will my farm support? For how long? How many paddocks do I need to have better grazing management? What type of fence should I build? Do I need water in every paddock? We’ll also review potential opportunities for assistance in developing a grazing system for your farm.
Presenters are Gene Schriefer, Ag Educator in Iowa County. Gene is a former Grazing Specialist and planned grazing systems for 10,000’s of acres in SW Wisconsin for sheep, goat, alpaca, beef, and dairy operations and is an established sheep and beef grazer. Adam Abel, NRCS Soil Conservationist in Outagamie County, is an avid grazer himself and is nationally recognized for his work providing outstanding grazing lands technical assistance as a major part of his soil conservationist duties in northeast Wisconsin.
The Small Ruminant webinar series, part of Extension’s Farm Ready Research series, provides a new spin on the long-standing and popular sheep production video conferencing series that connected sheep and goat producers around the state.
There is no charge to participate in the sessions, but pre-registration is required to allow access to the session. Extension recognizes that producers are receiving information for a lot of meetings this winter; the Farm Ready Research webinar website http://go.wisc.edu/FarmReadyResearch is your place to find all information about UW-Madison Extension Agriculture programs.
A sample week of Extension agricultural webinars begins on Tuesdays with Badger Dairy Insight from
1-2:30 p.m. and Wisconsin Beef Special Edition from 7-8:30 p.m.; Wednesdays focus on Small Ruminants from 7:30 – 9 p.m.; and then it’s Farm Management Fridays from 11 a.m. – noon.
Gene Schriefer 😷
Ag Educator
Extension
UW-Madison
Dodgeville, WI 53533
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