California Multi-Species
Grazing/Browsing Academy
September 17-19, 2010
UC Cooperative Extension Office
Auburn, CA
Registration for this event is now closed.
No walk-in registrations due to set-up needed for hands-on activities.
NO REFUNDS. Your check or credit card payment guarantees your space.
Maps, Auburn,CA
Accommodations, Auburn, CA
About The California Multi-Species Browsing/Grazing Academy:
This Academy is a unique and exciting program emphasizing the practical application of controlled grazing/browsing principles to improve the environment and increase ranch profit. This challenging course consists of a minimum of lecture and a maximum of hands-on experience. Participants learn by actually applying the principles taught in range, pasture, and brush with live animals.
Who Should Attend:
Ranchers, land managers, and agency personnel who manage livestock on privately or publically owned, pasture, rangeland, or brush acreage.
After Completing the Academy, Course Participants Will Be Able to:
- Assess the condition of the four basic ecological processes that determine ranch productivity.
- Apply principles of time and stock density to improve pasture productivity and stock performance.
- Estimate carrying capacity.
- Determine the supplementation needs of grazing/browsing sheep and goats.
- Design a layout to efficiently use resources and apply controlled grazing/browsing principles that will immediately improve grazing management on your own ranch.
- Identify target plants to be grazed to determine best time of the year to browse.
- Apply principles of time control, animal impact, and stock density to reduce fuel loads and control invasive species.
- Monitor results of grazing/browsing by using the indicators of rangeland health to determine whether grazing/browsing strategies are meeting desired goals and if any change is needed.
- Understand how to get started in contract grazing.
- Predator control using guard dogs.
- Marketing options, including strategies for different classes of goats and sheep.
For More Information:
Contact Roger Ingram at the UC Cooperative Extension Office/Placer County, located at 11477 E Avenue, Auburn, CA, 95603, call (530) 889-7385, or email rsingram@ucdavis.edu.
