Adaptive Grazing Workshop
Description
Kent Solberg and Doug Voss will lead a workshop on "Integrating Livestock and Adaptive Grazing for Profit, Performance, and Production." Learn how to:
-Promote abundance on your land
-Reduce fertilizer and feed costs
-Build animal and reproductive health
-Improve farm net profit
Free to attend!
Walkups welcome, but register by November 13 to ensure you get a lunch (provided).
Address: American Legion 111 E Main St, Hardwick, MN 56134
Registration and coffee/donuts at 8:30 am, program starts at 9 am. After lunch, attendees will caravan to a pasture walk at the Justin Decker farm.
About the presenters:
Kent Solberg is the senior technical advisor for the Sustainable Farming Association. From his farm in Wadena County, MN he travels the state and the country teaching and educating farmers and conservation professionals on soil health principles, adaptive grazing, low input dairying and regenerative cropping. After a ten year career with natural resource agencies, Kent started his own award winning dairy farm, was a farm fence contractor, and taught agriculture college courses. He now is a partner in Grazetek, a custom and conservation grazing service, and also consults and teaches for Understanding Ag and Soil Health Academy.
Doug Voss As the grazing lead for the Sustainable Farming Association, Doug consults with and teaches farmers how to improve their resources while lowering their input needs. Doug resides in Paynesville, MN where he operates Voss Farms. For many years, Doug and his family ran a dairy and crop farm before transitioning to a business focused on custom grazing. Doug has a wealth of knowledge in soil health and a unique ability to help farmers think differently about their farms and ranches. He now is a partner in Grazetek, a custom and conservation grazing service, and also consults and teaches for Understanding Ag and Soil Health Academy.
SFA staff and volunteers occasionally take photos during our workshops, cafe chats and field days for promotional purposes and to use as documentation of events to share with our funders. If you do not wish to be photographed, please let our event host know -- we'll make every effort to make sure you are not photographed.