The tour, sponsored by UNL Extension and the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program, is geared toward agricultural educators who will be using this information to tell others about intensive rotational grazing, said Chuck Francis, UNL sustainable agriculture specialist and one of the tour coordinators.
"This is ideal for educators, Natural Resources Conservation Service employees, high school vocational agriculture instructors or anyone else in a position to be educating people about intensive rotational grazing," the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources specialist said. "One of our goals with the SARE program is to encourage more study of alternative systems in the classroom, including intensive rotational grazing."
Intensive rotational grazing is when cattle continuously graze fenced areas or paddocks in a pasture for a short period of time and then are moved to another fenced area or paddock. This allows producers to manage forage availability, quality and use, Francis said.
The tours will cover the importance of cattle rotation frequency, costs, fencing, water and other management decisions.
A bus will depart for the tour from UNL's East Campus at 7 a.m. and from the court house in David City at 8:15 a.m.
The first day schedule of farm stops and topics include:
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