GET THE HAY OUT!

Warm season forages, such as bermudagrass and bahiagrass, form the core of many Southern and Southwestern grazing operations.
These fast-growing, but highly seasonal grasses, offer a real challenge to even the most sophisticated graziers. All too often, graziers wind up feeding hay for as long as 150 days a year. This is virtually the same as in Minnesota!

However, by using Management-Intensive Grazing, bermuda and bahia can be spun out into a year around, no-hay grazing program.

Getting The Hay Out of your operation is the single most important thing you can do to increase the profitability of your grazing operation. The Bermudagrass Belt can be among the lowest cost regions in both cow-calf and seasonal stocker production if hay feeding is eliminated.

Taught by Jim Gerrish, author of the best-selling book Management-intensive Grazing and SGF editor, Allan Nation, this school is designed to present the "whole" necessary for a profitable grass-based operation in bermudagrass country.

A major emphasis of this school is the correct sequence of implementing grazing technology so that it literally "pays for itself", through dramatically lower inputs.

Subjects to be covered at this school include:

* How to design a low-labor operation.
* How to determine your region’s unfair production and marketing advantage.
* How to completely eliminate hay feeding with grazing management.
* How to integrate overseeded annual ryegrass by "hoof and tooth".
* How to choose the best calving season for maximum fertility.
* How to wean yourself from nitrogen fertilizer.
* How to graze weeds.
* How to grow legumes in bermudagrass and avoid bloat.
* How to fight flies and internal parasites - naturally.

Developing a farm or ranch from the grass up is definitely a game of "first things first". You’ll save yourself thousands of dollars in unnecessary expenditures and years of frustration by making this school the "first thing" you do.

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