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Sustainable Rangelands Through Low-Input Grassfed Production

  • Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel 1550 Court Place Denver, CO, 80202 United States (map)

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

Low-input grassfed livestock production in the American West: Case studies of ecological, economic, and social resilience

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

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