NatGLC: The Ultimate Grazing School with Troy Bishopp
This hands-on grazing school equips you with practical tools—from planning and measuring forage to benchmarking profitable strategies and navigating weather challenges—to boost resilience, production, and profitability. Good grazing is the foundation of a profitable farm or ranch, as it directly impacts soil health, forage quality, and livestock performance. Effective grazing management ensures optimal utilization of resources, reduces costs, and maximizes returns by improving pasture productivity year after year. For beginners and seasoned graziers alike, this course will provide hands-on learning and the sharing of peer-to-peer knowledge to build a solid network.
By learning from grazing expert Troy Bishopp and a lineup of outstanding speakers, you’re investing in strategies that deliver real results. Their combined knowledge and real-world examples will help you implement proven techniques in your operation, making this course not just an educational opportunity, but a wise investment in the long-term success and profitability of your farm or ranch.
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We've heard the call and designed a program around having boots on the ground, eyes focused, heartrate raised with the safety of asking meaningful questions and creating scenarios that fit diverse objectives.
In the context of our grazing school, we are maximizing observational learning in the field and letting the land teach us from the way we humans manage and impact it. We have a diverse group of practitioners that lead through experience and relationship building who point out the subtle nuances in the "why it matters" game.
Day 1 activities include: Introductions and meet the hosts, context discussion, developing a practical grazing plan/setting up grazing chart, determining forage inventory, shapely grazing & sizing a paddock (group), moving animals, aserve grazing behavior, understanding body condition and nutritional aspects of feeding livestock and assess a variety of before & after grazing impacts. Bonus** Open to the public twilight pasture walk and ice-cream social
Catered lunches both days by the Amish church community
Day 2 activities include: See the results from previous ultra-high density grazing impact, rumen fill, look at biological life signs, wildlife considerations and monitoring concepts, get inspired by a robust soil health pit demo, delve into the nuances of silvepasture management, assess current stockpile forage growth and treaded in cover crops, discuss planning and forage allocation of winter grazing and bale grazing and bringing it all home for your context.
Join us on September 8 and 9"2026 at Evermore Farms - 8475 Morgan Creek Rd., Lindley, NY 14858
The Ultimate Grazing School is sponsored by Farm Credit Northeast AsEphancement Program, The New York Soil Health Program, The Upper Susquehanna Coalition, Country Folks Newspaper, Kings AgriSeeds Inc. and the National Grazing Lands Coalition with support from Cornell Cooperative Extension, NY-NRCS, Evermore Farms, Ferme Brylee, Mack Farms and Agricultural Consulting Services (ACS).
