Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Blackland Prairie Grazingland Conservation Initiative Tour
Submitted by:
Matt
Machacek
Grazingland
Specialist
Blackland
Prairie Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative
USDA-NRCS
4321
West Hwy. 22
Corsicana,
TX 75110
Office:
903-874-5131 ext. 113
Cell:
903-257-6633
The Blackland Prairie
Grazingland Conservation Initiative purpose is to provide
direct technical assistance to privately owned grazingland, and conduct
outreach on different topics. Some major topics include ranch profitability,
sustainability, and opportunities to improve our soil and forage
resources. From time to time we work with innovative ranches to host
field days with the purpose of helping local ranchers network and find
different technology that might fit their operations.
I would like to invite you to our 2013 Fall Grazing Tour on
November 19th in Sherman, TX. This tour will be located on
Watson Farms. Watson Farms is a 450 acre ranch divided into many paddocks
with electric fence. Stocker cattle are grazed at high density to
improve the forage base and focused management is being used to grow more beef
per acre while staying profitable. Craig Watson is certainly an innovator and
he will explain his approach to ranching profitably.
This tour is scheduled from 9:30 to 12:00 and it is open to
the general public.
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