Tuesday, February 4, 2025
1:00 p.m. MT – Registration
1:30 p.m. MT – Program
5:00 p.m. MT – Supper
Learn more about grazing management, cropland aftermath grazing, winter grazing strategies, and the financial benefits of regenerative agriculture.
Featuring:
Bart Carmichael, South Dakota Rancher
Don Morgan, Bank of North Dakota
Elizabeth and Taylor Morical, NDGLC Mentors
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
Stop by Room 206 in the Monument on Wednesday February 5, 2025 to learn more about financial assistance opportunities from NRCS, FSA, and other partners.
We’ll cover CSP, EQIP, and other alphabet soup programs, along with other entity’s opportunities!
Hear from local women producers on how they’ve used financial assistance opportunities to make improvements to their operations!
Refreshments and door prizes will be provided.
Come to learn, meet like-minded gals, and learn a little too!
Mob Grazing With Pat Guptill
Needing to find out more about mob grazing take a listen to how Pat does his.
Managing for Increased Diversity
Bart Carmichael with Clay on Working Cows Podcast, talking about increasing the diversity in forage for grazing.
Healthy soil
LEADPLANT
Uses Erosion control: Can be used for soil erosion control due to its deep, branching, woody root system.
Wildlife and Livestock: Leadplant is a floral food resource for pollinating insects, with pollen and nectar feeding solitary bees being some of the most important (Slagle and Hendrix, 2009). Leadplant is a palatable plant to cattle, sheep, and horses. It is also palatable to elk, mule deer, and white-tailed deer (Rosario, 1988).
Landscaping and restoration: Can be used as an ornamental because it has very showy flowers and is drought and shade tolerant. Used in restoration projects because it is a native nitrogen fixing plant that is also good for soil erosion control.
The presence of leadplant on native rangeland is usually indicative of a well managed area (Kindscher, 1992).
WINTERFAT
WINTERFAT USES:
Rangeland/Grazing – Winterfat is superior winter browse
for livestock and wildlife. It is rated as excellent to good
browse for cattle, sheep, and goats and fair browse for
horses (Ogle and Brazee). It is one of the most valuable
rangeland browse plants for maintaining weight of adult
animals on winter grazing range because of the high (>10
percent) crude protein content in winter. Welch (1989)
reported winterfat nutrition values at 43.5% in vitro
digestibility and 21.0 and 12.2% crude protein in spring
and summer respectively.