Master Grazer

Master Grazer is an outreach program providing producer workshops with the most up-to-date research on environmentally sustainable and economically feasible grazing management. Our fencing and grazing schools offer hands-on learning experiences through field days, pasture walks, workshops, conferences, and farm visits.

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Introduction to Forages

2018 Master Grazer intern Haley Zynda offers her expertise on forages.

Using Summer Annuals

Animal performance of weaned calves on summer annuals.

Grain Drill Calibration

Simplified procedure to calibrate your grain drill.

Thin Grass Stands

Potential causes and management strategies for thin stands.

Tire Tanks

Tire tanks for watering livestock.

Hay Testing

Figuring Out What You Have and What to Do with It!!!

Harvest excess pasture as hay or haylage.

Drought

Drought proofing your grazing system.

Grazing Plan

Failing to plan is planning to fail - Alan Lakein

Low Lignin Alfalfa

A review on new “Reduced Lignin” alfalfa varieties.

Repairing Pugged Pastures

Strategies for restoration.

Beef cattle grazed the pastures of Dave Burge's farm outside Lawrenceburg, Ky. Photo by Matt Barton

When to start feeding hay?

Meeting the winter nutritional needs.

Kentucky Fencing Schools

Helping producers build stronger boundaries

UPCOMING EVENTS

Novel Tall Fescue Workshop

Novel endophyte fescue

March 18, 2020 at the Middle Tennessee Research and Education Center

March 19, 2020 at the University of Kentucky Veterinary Diagnostic Lab, Lexington, KY

rotational grazing system. Join us for the 2020 SPRING GRAZING SCHOOL, April 21-22 in Princeton, KY. Registration is limited.

FENCING SCHOOL: Helping producers learn the newest fencing methods and sound fencing construction with classroom and hands-on learning. We are offering this one-day event in 4 locations for your convenience: