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Agenda—May 19th

10:00 a.m., Registration and Networking. 10:15 a.m., Walk and discuss Pasture Condition Index. What is a healthy pasture. 11:00 a.m., Presentation from Brian Pillsbury, “Maximizing Production on Your Pasture.”

Treating Pasture as a Crop, Optimizing Forage Production

Optimum pasture production is solely dependent on management. Just as one wouldn’t harvest a hay crop every week in the same field, you should not graze livestock repeatedly over and over until it gets very short. Close grazing or continuous grazing depletes the stored carbohydrates that are neede...