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Grazing Workshop scheduled for October

  Dr. Roy Roath, of the Forest, Range, and Watershed Stewardship Department at Colorado State University will be conducting a workshop at the First State Bank Conference Room on October 14th.  The workshop is an educational opportunity for livestock producers to learn how to develop prescribed grazing plans for their own operations and to then be able to effectively monitor and assess the effectiveness of their grazing system from year to year.  Dr. Roath recently developed the Grazing Response Index which is an efficient and effective method for landowners to gauge their grazing plan.  Dr. Roath, and the other grazing specialists that will be attending the workshop, intend to provide an interactive, hands on experience to participants so they can learn to develop their own grazing plan.  The presenters will demonstrate and describe the importance and sustainability of livestock grazing to the environment.   A well defined and implemented grazing plan will yield sustainable and profitable results that will provide long-term and progressive benefits to natural resources, wildlife, soils, and water quality.  This workshop is a pro active approach to putting knowledge and tools into the hands of those whom desire to implement science based grazing techniques for their operations.  Some of the topics to be discussed include:

 

  • Developing realistic goals and objectives for the ranch

  • Why build a grazing plan?  Why monitor?

  • Building a grazing plan

  • Monitoring/Record Keeping

  • Drought management plan

  • Use of a grazing plan for carbon credit trading

 

The workshop is hosted by the Wyoming Game & Fish Department, the Platte County Resource District, the Wheatland NRCS Office, Southeastern WY RC&D, and UW Cooperative Extension Service through grant funds received from Wyoming Private Grazing Lands Team Educational Grant.  In order to best utilize the information from the workshop, maps with important soils information of each landowners’ properties will be provided.  Interested landowners need to RSVP by September 2nd to allow time for the maps to be produced.  Please call 322-9060 to schedule a time for your map to be made.