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Jason Cavadini, grazing-outreach specialist with the UW-Division of Extension, challenges producers to build on their current management plans, to improve their grass management for the sake of the environment and farm profitability.
Brooke Bembenek is now the conservation-grazing analyst with Marathon County Conservation, Planning, and Zoning. She learned the practical aspects of grazing management while interning at the University of Wisconsin-Marshfield Agricultural Research Station with the then-station assistant superintendent Jason Cavadini. Cavadini accurately predicted Bembenek would want a career in grass-based agriculture by the end of her tenure there.
Hunter and Maggie Strebig own Morning Breeze Farm near Hortonville, Wisconsin. 'As we continue to graze, we are always learning and improving our practices. There is a lot of management and planning involved in successfully rotational grazing, but the amount of labor overall is less,' he sayd. 'Our animals have such a low stress life being managed in this way. Winter-bale grazing reduces how frequently we need to start tractors in the cold, which is another added benefit. It's important to our customers that our animals are grass-fed their entire life and raised on-pasture.'
Derrick Raspor, a resource conservationist, says grazing interest has grown significantly in Waupaca County and the surrounding counties in Wisconsin where he works.
Dr. Greg Brickner, Organic Valley veterinarian and grazing specialist, is also a grass-based-sheep producer. He shares grazing health challenges with producers.
Gerrie and Sadie Franke own Half Moon Hill Farm & Winery near Athens, Wisconsin. 'Managed grazing is crucial to our operation, as we only have a 32-acre farm, so we need to maximize every acre,' she says. 'We had many mentors along the way, including most notably Paul Daigle who was our grazing specialist, as well as another local farmer Craig Carlson of Ninepatch Farm, among others. We’re so grateful to all our mentors who took us from clueless city folk to what we consider knowledgeable sheep farmers.'
Greg Galbraith
“I’m definitely still a rookie,” said Brooke Bembenek, conservation-grazing analyst with Marathon County Conservation, Planning, and Zoning in Wisconsin.
Greg Galbraith, a former dairy farmer who owns woodlot property in eastern Marathon County, Wisconsin, writes about the rapidly changing nature of the agricultural landscape. He has built a lifetime connection to the land and those who farm it.
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MADISON, Wis. – The U.S. Department of Agriculture-Natural Resources Conservation Service for Wisconsin recently hosted a State Technical Comm…
Jason Cavadini, grazing-outreach specialist with the UW-Division of Extension, challenges producers to build on their current management plans, to improve their grass management for the sake of the environment and farm profitability.
Brooke Bembenek is now the conservation-grazing analyst with Marathon County Conservation, Planning, and Zoning. She learned the practical aspects of grazing management while interning at the University of Wisconsin-Marshfield Agricultural Research Station with the then-station assistant superintendent Jason Cavadini. Cavadini accurately predicted Bembenek would want a career in grass-based agriculture by the end of her tenure there.
Hunter and Maggie Strebig own Morning Breeze Farm near Hortonville, Wisconsin. 'As we continue to graze, we are always learning and improving our practices. There is a lot of management and planning involved in successfully rotational grazing, but the amount of labor overall is less,' he sayd. 'Our animals have such a low stress life being managed in this way. Winter-bale grazing reduces how frequently we need to start tractors in the cold, which is another added benefit. It's important to our customers that our animals are grass-fed their entire life and raised on-pasture.'
Gerrie and Sadie Franke own Half Moon Hill Farm & Winery near Athens, Wisconsin. 'Managed grazing is crucial to our operation, as we only have a 32-acre farm, so we need to maximize every acre,' she says. 'We had many mentors along the way, including most notably Paul Daigle who was our grazing specialist, as well as another local farmer Craig Carlson of Ninepatch Farm, among others. We’re so grateful to all our mentors who took us from clueless city folk to what we consider knowledgeable sheep farmers.'
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