Sustainably-raised animal products and planned grazing on working landscapes.
Society for Range Management Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado.
Co-organizer; with Dan Nosal, Harvey Sprock, and Carrie Balkcom; sponsored by American Grassfed Association.
Morning session (Chair: Dan Nosal)
The Virtues of Grassfed Products for Consumers
Meg Cattell and Arden Nelson, Windsor Dairy
Ranching in Sync with Nature
Dale Lasater, Lasater Ranch
Multiple-Species Grassfed Production
Richard Parry, Fox Fire Farms
Benefits of Low-Input Ranching
Kit Pharo, Pharo Cattle Company
Afternoon session (Chair: Matt Barnes)
Organic grass-finished beef on a forage chain from conception to consumer
George Whitten and Julie Sullivan, San Juan Ranch
The low-carbon foodprint of local grassfed livestock production in a semiarid environment
Dennis Moroney, 47 Ranch
Desert-adapted beef cattle: Harvesting the past for the future
Ed Fredrickson, et al., USDA-ARS Jornada Experimental Range
Benefits of grazing systems to grassfed production
Harvey Sprock, USDA-NRCS Colorado
Rebuilding food system infrastructure in the Southwest
Laurie Bower, Southwest Grassfed Livestock Alliance
American Grassfed certification: Paperwork behind the promise
Carrie Balkcom. American Grassfed Association
Resulting publications
Rangelands
2011 | M. Barnes
Low-input grassfed livestock production and planned grazing for a triple bottom line
In Practice
2010 | M. Barnes
Grassfed production touted at rangeland management conference
Grassfed Gazette
2010 | Anonymous