Targeted Grazing Principles – 2015

– Grazing with a Goal

Learn the principles of targeted grazing to manage landscape in presentations originally presented in spring 2015.  Online presentations and discussions will be led by experts on the topic of targeted grazing and made possible by the Targeted Grazing Committee of the Society for Range Management.

Basic Principles

•  Background video on Targeted Grazing by the American Sheep Industry Association

• March 5 – Why Targeted Grazing?
  Dr. John Walker, Texas A&M University
  ⇒ View Presentation on YouTube  
  —  Notes and References

• March 19 – Plant Ecology & Response to Grazing
  Dr. John Hendrickson, ARS Northern Great Plains Research Laboratory
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• April 9 – Diet Selection Basics
  Dr. Karen Launchbaugh, University of Idaho
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• April 30 – Choosing and Developing the Animal for the Job
  Dr. Rachel Frost, Missouri River Conservation Districts Council
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• May 21 –Monitoring for Success
  Dr. Marc Horney, California Polytechnic State University – San Luis Obispo
  ⇒ View Presentation on YouTube