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September 2014
October 2014
Workshop: Hawaii Sheep & Goat Association
Annual Workshop of the Hawaii Sheep & Goat Association. I will give three presentations during the 2-Day Workshop: (1) Management Intensive Grazing. (2) Nutrient Deficiencies in Forage-based Diets. (3) Technology Tools for Small Farmers.
Find out more »November 2014
Conference Speaker: Dairy Sheep Association of North America 2014 Symposium
DSANA. My sessions will be on forage and grazing management, technology updates and transfers, etc.
Find out more »March 2015
Class, OSU Veterinary School: Basic Livestock Nutrition
Guest lecturer for the Course VMC 720 (Veterinary Clinical Nutrition) at the College of Veterinary Medicine, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon. This course is now required for first year veterinary students. Topics that I will cover in this 2-hour class: Rumen physiology, nutritional terms, basic nutrition concepts (energy, protein, etc.), components of feed analyses, fiber digestion, herbivore anatomy and architecture, forage nutritional quality, scoring hay.
Find out more »April 2015
Presentation, DCLA Spring Livestock Conference: New Forages, Forage Traits
At the DCLA Spring Livestock Conference, Sutherlin, Oregon: My talk (4:30-5:30) is entitled "New Forages, Traits We Can Use". I'll focus on the new species and cultivars that can be utilized in PNW pastures on the west side of the Cascades (Western Oregon, Western Washington, and the north Coastal area of California). Forages like the improved hybrid brassicas, BMR sorghum-sudangrass, Grazing Brome, Italian Ryegrass, Balansa and Persian clovers, the new cultivars of Tall Fescue, and a few surprising others. This…
Find out more »May 2015
Workshop, Coos County Fencing Day: Intensive Grazing
I will give a 1-hour session on the basics of MIG -- Management Intensive Grazing. This will be part of a day-long workshop that focuses on fencing and pasture management. Other speakers will present information on techniques for electric fencing, fence construction, stream-bank erosion, Federal programs for riparian restoration and fencing. The entire day's workshop will be held outdoors, in a beautiful field next to the Coquille River in Coos County, Oregon. Instructor on fencing will be Randy Bailey of…
Find out more »June 2015
Workshop, 2015 Black Sheep Gathering: Feeding Sheep and Goats 101
At the Black Sheep Gathering, Eugene, Oregon: I will conduct a practical workshop on how to feed sheep and goats. We’ll cover the basic principles of energy and protein nutrition and how to apply these principles to day-to-day choices of rations and feeds. We’ll focus on the different periods of your animals’ production cycle: growth, flushing, gestation, lactation, and weaning. Some topics will include matching animal needs with pastures, growing replacement animals, how, what, and when to supplement grain, vitamins…
Find out more »September 2015
Workshop, Rogue Valley Dairy Goat Assoc: Dairy Goat Nutrition
At the Rogue Valley Dairy Goat Association Educational Day, Central Point, Oregon. I will give two 90-minute presentations (including Q&A): 1. Basic Goat Nutrition -- The nutritional calendar of dairy goats throughout their production year. What they need nutritionally, how to feed them, practical issues. Some common nutritional terms. How to reduce feed costs, avoid nutritional problems, and raise healthy goats. 2. Minerals and Vitamins for Dairy Goats -- A review of what goats need, what to feed, what to…
Find out more »January 2016
Seminar, UC-Davis
Departmental Seminar for the Animal Science Department, University of California-Davis Title: "Fee-Based Producer Discussion Groups: An Effective and Sustainable Program for Delivering Information to Livestock Producers"
Find out more »February 2016
Northwest Oregon Dairy Goat Association Educational Conference
I will give three 75-minute sessions on livestock nutrition, especially focusing on goats: Session #1: Basic Dairy Goat Nutrition 101 Session #2: Minerals -- Practical Tips, Common Problems Session #3: Vitamins -- Surprisingly, Less is More
Find out more »March 2016
Webinar: Producer Groups: What Are These About, How Do They Work, And Why Can They Be So Successful?
There is nothing else like them: producer groups. New Zealand, Australia, England, South America – shepherds in these areas regularly join and attend producer groups, often for many years. Why? Because producer groups work. Sheep producers and other farmers and ranchers meet on a regular basis, share knowledge and experience, gain up-to-date information from guest speakers and other sources, evaluate their own operations, try new techniques, improve productivity, and gain immeasurable knowledge to help their operations expand and be profitable.…
Find out more »June 2016
Workshop, 2016 Black Sheep Gathering: Practical Tips for Sheep & Goat Producers
Workshop Name: "Tips, Tips, Tips: Practical Notes for Sheep & Goat Producers" This will be one of the most useful and down-to-earth production workshops you’ve ever attended. We will cover dozens of sheep and goat topics and give practical tips about them. Lambing, kidding, flushing, breeding, late-gestation nutrition, feeding in the jug, bottle-feeding, weaning, minerals, vitamins, reading those feed-tags, new feed regulations. Details on copper, selenium, lambing percentages, and how and when to take forage and feed samples. Nutritional problems…
Find out more »August 2016
Spooner Sheep Day
I will give a short presentation "The Future for Effective Sheep Industry Information: From the Spooner Station to Producer Groups" Since the Spooner sheep flock will be dispersed this fall, this will be the 64th and last Spooner Sheep Day.
Find out more »September 2016
Grass-Finished Meat School
This is a 5-session course: Sept. 16, Sept. 17, Sept. 20, Sept. 22, and Sept. 23. The session on Sept. 17th will occur from 10-12 and 1:30-3:30. All the other sessions will be from 5:30-9:00 pm. Details are on the class website. On Tuesday, Sept. 20, I will give a presentation on "Managing A Forage Chain" -- this will be about raising livestock on forages, particularly grazing conditions in western Oregon.
Find out more »British Columbia Sheep Federation Conference 2016
I will give 5 presentations during this Conference: Nutritional Requirements of Ewes During the Year How To Set Up A Grazing System Farm & Ranch Groups: A New Way to Gain Information Early Weaning & Artificial Rearing of Lambs Keynote after dinner speech: Shepherding In A Facebook World
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