Workshops 2023 – Nutrient Management
Improving Pasture Management for Sustainable Livestock Production Webinar Series - Pt. 1 February 22, 2023
Principles of Nutrient Management
PowerPoint Presentations available:
Introduction to Nutrient management
Whole Farm Nutrient Use and Mass Balances
Workshops 2022 – Soil Health
Assessing Soil Health Webinar Series - Pt. 1 February 15, 2022
Assessing Soil Health Webinar Series - Pt. 2 March 23, 2022
Assessing Soil Health Webinar Series - Pt. 3 April 19, 2022
Workshops 2021 – Pasture Assessment
Pasture Condition Scoring
How to Utilize a Pasture Stick
How to Take a Dry Matter Sample
Visiting BOTL Farm
Workshops 2021 – Grazing Management
Grazing Management Analysis Webinar - August 25, 2021
2021 Webinar Series
Improving Pasture Management for Sustainable Livestock Production
- Friday, February 19th - Introduction to the development of a grazing plan
- Wednesday, March 10th - Grazing plan calculations
- Tuesday, March 23rd - Integrating Fence and Water Infrastructure
- Tuesday, April 6th - Refining Your Grazing Plan
Workshops 2020
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]
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)
Virtual Field Workshop - UMass Stockbridge School of Agriculture, Amherst MA
(8/18/20 - held as a webinar)
- 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)
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)
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)
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