Intermediate Grazing School
Intermediate Grazing School
In-PersonThe 2024 Fall Kentucky Intermediate Grazing School’s goal is to help livestock producers improve profitability with hands-on and classroom learning. The school is Sept. 25-26 at the Woodford County Extension office in Versailles, KY and at the UK C. Oran Little Research Farm.
Last Revised: Aug 7th, 2024
Event Description
The 2024 Fall Kentucky Intermediate Grazing School’s goal is to help livestock producers improve profitability with hands-on and classroom learning. The school is Sept. 25-26 at the Woodford County Extension office in Versailles, KY and at the UK C. Oran Little Research Farm.
The school will begin each morning at 7:30 a.m. EDT with refreshments and ends by 5:00 p.m. Topics on the first day include introduction to soils, rotational grazing, meeting nutritional needs on pasture, grazing math concepts, travel to a local grazing operation, portable/seasonal water systems, methods to access pasture production and determine stocking rate, hands-on small paddock set-up demonstrations. After lunch at the farm, more topics include electric fencing to control grazing, offsets, soil and hay sampling, forage plant grown and grazing management and choosing forage species for a comprehensive grazing system.
Topics on the second day include fence types and costs, a grazing system design case study and exercise, grazing myths that impact profitability and a discussion on how to reinvigorate a rundown farm. A local producer will discuss how they made grazing work on their farm. The day culminates with a trip back to the research farm to observe and discuss the hands-on grazing exercise from the previous day. Students will also have the opportunity to calibrate a grain drill and try a simple GPS unit that improves the accuracy of frost seeding with an ATV. Sponsors include the UK Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, KY Forage and Grassland Council, KY Master Grazer, KY Beef Network, and KY Agricultural Development Fund.
