Why is Holistic Planned Grazing Important?
Holistic Planned Grazing is a strategic planning process that brings simplicity to the great complexity livestock managers face daily integrating livestock production with forage, crop, wildlife needs, and other myriad considerations while working to ensure continued land regeneration, animal health and performance, and profitability.
Holistic Planned Grazing helps ensure that the livestock are in the right place, at the right time, for the right reasons, and with the right behavior.
This introductory workshop will teach you basic grazing concepts that will help you be a better grazier, grass farmer, and complete a holistic grazing plan (conducted in a separate workshop).
A two day workshop where you will learn:
how to measure forage
how to calculate animal days per acre and what it means
how to determine how many paddocks you need
how to determine grazing and recovery periods
what graze/trample-to-recovery ratio tells you
how to plan for and utilize stock density and herd effect
how to determine correct stocking rates
You will leave the workshop with tools and knowledge to apply in your own grazing operation, which will assist you in maximize your forage production, and livestock production with a holistic grazing plan.
Lunch included both days.
Pre-Requisite: Foundations of Holistic Management