Join us for a FREE tour of rotational grazing systems in
northwestern Minnesota. This tour is designed to give producers and
agriculture professionals a better understanding of pasture
management.
Attendees will travel in an air conditioned chartered bus and
receive a free lunch. Pasture sticks and Rancher’s Guidebooks will
be given away. (Participants will be shown how to use the pasture
sticks while at a stop.) Other grazing resource materials will also
be distributed.
Speakers include Mark Hayek, NRCS Grazing Specialist and Dr.
Donny Hagen, DVM Plummer, MN.
- 9:15 Bus Load
The tour begins at the Greenbush
Legion Park on Hwy 11 West in Greenbush, MN (just past the
Oakview Golf Course on the left).
- 1ST STOP ~ DARIN BERTILRUD FARM
The Bertilruds are beef producers with an active EQIP
(Environmental Quality Incentives Program) contract and manage
an intensive rotational grazing system. View prescribed grazing
system, fencing, pasture planting and pipeline. EQIP will be
discussed as a program producers can use to plan and implement a
rotational grazing system with federal dollars. Selection of
grass and forage species will also be discussed.
These producers are in the process of implementing intensive
rotational grazing systems on their farms. This stop will
include a water pipeline installation demo.
- *Lunch – Importance of Anthrax vaccination – Dr.
Hagen
- 3RD STOP ~ MIKE KUKOWSKI FARM
Prescribed grazing system set up and running. Includes
prescribed grazing, fence, watering facilities and HUAP.
Mark Foldesi – Forage plot example of Garrison Creeping
Foxtail.
Jerry Walsh - Prescribed grazing system with temporary
interior fence and tanks.
For further information contact Russ Severson
at
218-281-8695 or 218-289-0499.
