South Dakota Grassland Coalition
"A unified voice for managing South Dakota's grass resource"
Grass Roots
SDGC's Official Newsletter
Grass Roots brings you comprehensive, informative and timely material geared towards a collective interest as grassland managers, including:
  • information on shared-cost resource management programs;
  • the latest information on state and federal policy rulings and directives that affect private grassland ownership;
  • fostering partnerships with the multiple users of grasslands;
  • the development of a scholarship program to help producers attend courses and seminars;
  • networking a pool of qualified consultants to assist producers in discovering the 'uncommon advantage' resources that include production, family, finances, and managing natural resources in a changing societal environment;
  • the distinction between preservation and conservation;
  • what part of the food dollar comes back to the land;
  • can ag lenders, appraisers and grassland managers find common ground;
  • how does public grassland initiatives affect you, and more.

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Items of Interest

Jim Gerrish Website
  Jim Gerrish Presentations in SD at
  2011 Jim Gerrish Workshop Series:
'Ranching Without Iron & Oil'
'What Really Matters in Grazing Management'
'Effectively Grazing Winter Range'
'Managing Cow Costs'
'Dollars & Sense of Grazing'
 
  Jim Gerrish Presentations in SD at
  2008 Annual Meeting:
'MiG on Pasture and Range'

'Managing Cow Costs'


SDSU 2008 Riparian Demonstration Project Report

Kirk Gadzia Website


Fred Provenza PowerPoint presentation on Animal Behavior, Oacoma, SD 12-4-07

Gabe Brown wmv. presentation at SD Cattlemen's Association Convention, Watertown, SD
(Brown's PowerPoint presentation)

Low Cost Precision Supplements to Add Profit to Cow-Calf Operations

Grassland Management Video

 

Note: Views expressed here are not necessarily those of the SD Grassland Coalition or its members. Please contact the author(s) with any comments or questions. Thank you.

If you have an article you would like to submit, e-mail it to the Chairman of the SDGC. The Coalition Board of Directors reserves the right to review all items submitted for this section and to refuse any and all articles.

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Jim Faulstich
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