Improving Pasture Management for Sustainable Livestock Production

• Friday, February 19th - Introduction to the development of a grazing plan
  • Workshop Recording
• Wednesday, March 10th - Grazing plan calculations
  • Workshop Recording
• Tuesday, March 23rd - Integrating Fence and Water Infrastructure
  • Workshop Recording 

• Tuesday, April 6th - Refining Your Grazing Plan
  • Workshop Recording 

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Pasture Renovation, Forage Species Selection and Weed Management (2/10/20 Classroom Workshop)

• Pasture Renovation-Sid Bosworth
• Forage Species Selection and Equipment - Rod Porter
• Weed Management - Sid Bosworth

Grazing Systems
(3/23/20 Classroom Workshop, held as a webinar)
[workshop recording]

• Silvopasture - Joseph Orefice
• Types of Grazing Systems - Justine Deming

Extending the Grazing Season
(4/06/20 Classroom Workshop, held as a webinar)

• 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
(6/10/20 - held as a webinar)

• Jennie Kapszukiewicz - Powerpoint Presentation
• Workshop Recording

Virtual Field Workshop - UMass Stockbridge School of Agriculture, Amherst MA
(8/18/20 - held as a webinar)

• Nicole Burton - Powerpoint Presentation  (Silvopasture)
• Workshop Recording

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Improving existing pastures and establishing new pastures (2/11/19 classroom workshop)

• Pasture Plants - Rick Kersbergen
• Understanding the Role of S​​​​​​oils - 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)

• Pasturing vs. confinement systems - Jennifer Colby
• Forage quality of plants and weeds - Sid Bosworth
• Nutritional needs and challenges of animals raised on pasture - Karen Hoffman

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)

Workshop recording

• Animal health and disease related to nutrition - Joyce Meader
• Parasite control through proper nutrition - Katherine Petterson
• Proper nutrition during gestation, effects on the animal and her offspring - Maria Hoffman

2020 Resources

• Calibration of drills
• Drill Calibration Sheet
• Penn State Agronomy Guide
• Web Soil Survey

2019 Resources

• Characteristics of forage legumes in Northeast (color chart)
• Characteristics of farm and pasture grasses in Northeast (color chart) 
• Characteristics of forage and pasture species (table)
• 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

2018 Resources

• Parasite control in small ruminants