Save the Date: HMI Planned Grazing Short Course
Title: Save the Date: HMI Planned Grazing Short Course
Event Link: Click here
Description: Holistic Management Texas brings you a Planned Grazing Short Course June 29-July 1, 2010. This is the perfect chance to learn from the best about how to plan for profit and land health!
The three-day Holistic Management course will be jam-packed full of information for you to use on your land and your business! Kirk Gadzia and Kelly Boney will cover rangeland monitoring, financial planning, land planning, and more. The content will be relevant to both managerial and operational level employees, with varying levels of formal education. Class will run from 8am to 4:15pm each day.
Kirk Gadzia, one of the most popular instructors in the field, is co-author of the important National Academy of Sciences book Rangeland Health. He holds a BS degree in Wildlife Biology and an MS in Range Science. Founder of Resource Management Services, LLC, Kirk is a Certified Educator with Holistic Management International. He has over 20 years experience teaching these concepts worldwide. Combined with his extensive international consulting work on many agricultural operations, he is uniquely qualified to help you achieve your learning objectives. Kirk works directly with producers to achieve profitability in their operations.
Planned grazing is a specific method of planning to have the right animals at the right place in the right time frame for the right reasons. Although complex, this concept is not complicated and can result in dramatic improvements to land health, animal performance and financial success. Kirk knows how to break down planned grazing in a way that is interesting and easy to understand.
Participants will learn:
How to plan for profit
How to manage land animals and people
How to understand the water cycle, mineral cycle, community dynamics and the flow of sunlight
How to read the land to determine its health how to plan infrastructure and land design
How to plan grazing for maximum land and animal health.
The cost of this great event is $300. Space is limited so please register today at www.hmitexas.org or call Amy at 830-868-2427. Don’t miss this chance to have two great instructors and three days of great information! Details coming soon about our Panhandle location and lodging.
Start Date: 2010-06-29
Start Time: 08:00
End Date: 2010-07-01
End Time: 16:15