Pasture resiliency and adaptation in the face of climate change
Pt. 1 Managing a Pasture Based System in Today's Changing Climate
Pt. 2 Pasture Adaption Techniques for a Changing Climate - Extending the Grazing Season and Forage Needs
Pt. 3 Pasture Adaption Techniques for a Changing Climate - Winter and bale grazing
Presentation slides: Bale Grazing
Worksheet: Calculating winter feed requirements
Economics of pasture raised livestock workshops
Economic fundamentals of pasture based livestock systems
Helpful Handouts from American Farmland Trust
Practical approaches to positively impact economics of pasture based livestock systems
Nutrient Management Workshops
Pt. 1 Principles of Nutrient Management
Introduction to Nutrient management
Whole Farm Nutrient Use and Mass Balances
Webinar: Principles of Nutrient Management (Recorded)
Pt. 2 Integration of Pasture Management and Nutrient Management
Pasture and Nutrient Management
Webinar: Integration of Pasture Management and Nutrient Management (Recorded)
Pt. 3 Nutrient Management Decision Making Based on Soil Testing
Webinar: Nutrient Management Decision Making Based on Soil Testing (Recorded)
Assessing Soil Health Workshops
Assessing Soil Health Webinar Series
Pt. 1 Assessing Soil Health:
What is the status of my soil health?
Pt. 2 The Value of Soil Health:
Soil, Plant, and Animal Interactions
UConn Soil Health and Pastures Webinar 2 - BLANK Worksheet for Participants
Slideshow: Grazing & Soil Health
Pt. 3 Creating Meaningful Soil Health Change:
What can I do to make positive changes to my soil health?
Slideshow: Creating Meaningful Change for Soil Health
Cornell Soil Trailer Tour with Fay Benson:
UConn Extension's Northeast SARE Project spent a day out in the field at Scantic Valley Farm in Somers learning about soil health and pasture management for beef cattle: View the tour here
Grazing Management Workshops
Webinar Series: Improving Pasture Management for Sustainable Livestock Production
Pasture Renovation and Grazing Workshops
Pasture Renovation, Forage Species Selection and Weed Management
- Pasture Renovation-Sid Bosworth
- Forage Species Selection and Equipment - Rod Porter
- Weed Management - Sid Bosworth
Grazing Systems
[workshop recording]
Extending the Grazing Season
- Spring and Fall Grazing - Samantha Glaze-Corcoran
- Stockpiling- Carl Majewski
- Grazing Cover Crops to Extend the Season - Sjoerd Duiker
Virtual Field Workshop - Stone Hill Farm, Plainfield CT
Virtual Field Workshop - UMass Stockbridge School of Agriculture, Amherst MA
- Nicole Burton - Powerpoint Presentation (Silvopasture)
- Workshop Recording
Workshops 2019
Improving existing pastures and establishing new pastures (2/11/19 classroom workshop)
- Pasture Plants - Rick Kersbergen
- Understanding the Role of Soils - Kip Kolesinskas
- Care and Feeding of Pastures - Carl Majewski
Properly managing your existing pastures (3/11/19 Classroom Workshop)
- Grazing Management - Kimberly Hagen
- Forage Calculations - Bob Skalbite
- Pasture Design and Infrastructure - Kimberly Hagen
Nutritional management of pasture raised animals (4/29/19 Classroom Workshop)
2019 Resources
- Characteristics of farm and pasture grasses in Northeast (color chart)
- Description and seeding rates for forage plants
- Establishing forage seedlings (UNH publication)
- How to guide for using a pasture stick
- Cool season grass ID chart
- Cool season legume ID chart
- Measuring grass cover (quadrant method)
- Livestock Services in CT
- Livestock Services in MA
- Livestock Services in RI
Workshops 2018
Basic animal nutrition concepts and their ties to animal health (5/18/18 Classroom Workshop)
- Ties between nutrition and animal health and welfare - Amy Safran
- Animal nutrition concepts - John Hibma
Sustainably feeding animals and the use of Body Condition Scoring to evaluate animals (6/21/18 Classroom workshop)
- Development of a sustainable diet - Nicole Burton
- Introduction to Body Condition Scoring and BCS of swine - Alicia Pedemonti
- BCS of beef cattle, sheep and goats - Scott Morey
Animal Health and diseases related to nutrition (7/31/18 Classroom workshop)