Restoring and Maintaining Riparian (Water) Areas in a Grazing System
This session will focus on best practices where grazing systems and waterways interact on the farm. Guest presenter is Steve Gabriel.
Rotational Grazing 101
During this session, we will cover the basics of rotational grazing, the math you can use to determine carrying capacity of your pastures, and cost-effective steps you can take to improve your grazing systems.
Building Soil Health With Animal Agriculture
This seminar will dig deep into what soil health is, how it is linked to the current regenerative agriculture trend, and how animal agriculture can work to build resiliency from the ground up.
Enticing Animals to Eat “Unpalatable” Plants
Join FACT and guest presenter Dr. Fred Provenza to discuss how understanding processes that underlie foraging behavior can be used to entice animals to eat “unpalatable” plants.
Botanicals & Tips for Natural Livestock Management
This talk will focus on plants that provide health for your animals, touching on nutritional aspects of commonly encountered plants as well as forages that provide anti-parasitic compounds and plant based medicines for individual animals.
Medicinal Grazing for Small Ruminants
Chemical dewormers for small ruminants are becoming less effective at a startling rate. Join guest presenter Kirsten Robertson on her journey to becoming chemical dewormer free with her goats and sheep.
Grazing for Resilience - Bouncing Forward from Catastrophic Events
This webinar will delve into grazing management strategies that will help insulate your operation from catastrophes like drought, flood, and fire. Learn how to build resilient soils, plants and businesses by using your most powerful tool: the ability to plan, observe and adapt to whatever nature dishes out.
Lambing, Kidding, and Calving on Pasture
Join our expert panelists to hear how they handle lambing, kidding, and calving, including helpful tools, recognizing imminent birth, how a normal birth proceeds, and when and how to intervene.
Pasture-Based Livestock: Advancing Ecological, Economic, and Emotional Resilience
Pastured livestock offers an array of exciting opportunities and solutions. Learn how to leverage grazing ruminants to advance resilience within your operation.
Grazing to Avoid Trouble
We discuss some of the problems farmers might encounter while grazing their livestock. Bloat, toxic plants, fescue toxicity, predator control, and parasite management will be addressed
Scaling Up Pastured Livestock Production
Join us to learn more about what it would take to scale up pastured meat production on your operation.
Trees for Livestock Food and Medicine
Presenter Steve Gabriel discusses the medicinal and feed values trees can offer ruminant livestock, and methods for managing them on your landscape.
Pasture Improvement with Sarah Flack - Graziers’ Toolbox (Part 3)
Join FACT and grazing expert Sarah Flack for part 3 of a 3 part series on strategies for pasture management and improvement.
Pasture Management with Sarah Flack - Livestock Perspective (Part 2)
Join FACT and grazing expert Sarah Flack for part 2 of a 3 on pasture management strategies.
Pasture Management with Sarah Flack - Soil and Plants (Part 1)
Join FACT and grazing expert Sarah Flack for part 1 of a 3 on pasture management strategies.
Practical Tips for Multispecies Grazing
This webinar will discuss the benefits, the synergistic relationship between multiple species and the soil and plants, fencing, predators, parasites, and how to stock pastures appropriately.
Tall Grass Grazing: Transition Off of N Fertilizer
Tall Grass Grazing permits a life without Nitrogen fertilizer and the opportunity to work with nature instead of shoving her aside with inputs.
Grazing Cover Crops
Meghan Filbert, livestock program manager at Practical Farmers of Iowa (PFI), will share best management practices to maximize the economic value of cover crops.
Managing Face Flies on Pastured Cattle
Join us to hear about the latest strategy to control Face Flies on pastured cattle.