21st Annual Vermont Grazing & Livestock Conference has ended

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21st Annual Vermont Grazing & Livestock Conference

8:00am EST

Registration Table Open Main Lobby

8:30am EST

Refreshments Available Downstairs Hallway

9:00am EST

Farm Business Building Part 1: Planning for the End at the Start: Elements of Farm Business Success Theatre Grazing: Is there an App for That? Edgewater

10:30am EST

Refreshment Break Downstairs Hallway

10:45am EST

Farm Business Building Part 2: Measuring Business Health and Preparing for the Next Steps Theatre Introduction to goGraze Edgewater

12:00pm EST

Lunch Dining Room

1:00pm EST

Farm Business Building Part 3: Finding the Right Lender for Your Business Stage and Situation Theatre Using A Grazing Chart To Accomplish What You Want and Limit Stress Edgewater

2:30pm EST

Refreshment Break Downstairs Hallway

2:45pm EST

Farm Business Building Part 4: Farmer Panel: Reflections on Starting Farm Businesses Theatre Using A Grazing Chart To Accomplish What You Want and Limit Stress Edgewater

4:00pm EST

Hay Management for Bobolinks Decisionmaking Session A Lakeside West Tradeshow Open (with refreshments) Morey Room

5:00pm EST

Buffet Dinner (Make Your Own Reservations) Dining Room

7:00pm EST

Watering Livestock and People in Kenya: A Maasai Visitors' Presentation and Discussion Waterlot SEED: The Untold Story Theatre

7:30am EST

Registration Table Open Main Lobby

8:00am EST

Tradeshow Open (with refreshments) Morey Room

9:00am EST

Why Does My Animal Bring Less Than My Neighbor's? Waterlot Hay Management for Bobolinks Decisionmaking Session B Lakeside West Managing Annual Forages for Quality Terrace Ballroom Forage Opportunities and Challenges with Cover Crops Captain's Room Grazing Fundamentals Theatre Drought Doesn't Have to be Downer Edgewater Kids' Conference Session 1 Garden View

10:45am EST

A New Era of Innovative Entrepreneurship in Land and Livestock- New Pastoralism Terrace Ballroom Kids' Conference Session 2 Garden View

12:00pm EST

Lunch Dining Room Tradeshow Open (bring your lunch!) Morey Room

12:30pm EST

Lunch Discussion: Needs, Barriers, and Opportunities for Transition to Regenerative Agriculture: Marked table in main dining room Lunch Discussion: Vermont Beef Producers Association Theatre Lunch Discussion: RAPs Update TBA

1:30pm EST

CANCELLED: Picking the Best Bull--The Art and Science of Genetics Captain's Room Creative Watering Solutions Roundtable Waterlot Exploring the Impact of the Bedded Pack Ecosystem on Mastitis Transmission Pathways on Dairy Farms Lakeside West Successful Case Studies and Business Models for Contract Grazing on Private and Public Lands Terrace Ballroom Bale-Grazing: Between the Tortoise and the Hare Edgewater Introduction to goGraze Lakeside East Kids' Conference Session 3 Garden View Soil Health for Grazing Farms Theatre

3:00pm EST

Alternative Barnyards: Woodchip Pad Wintering Systems Captain's Room Strategies to Strengthen Beginning and Experienced Grazing Dairy Farmers Waterlot On Pasture: A Tool for All Seasons Lakeside East Climb it Change: Trees and Shrubs as Vertical Forage Systems for Goats Lakeside West Root Development Under Different Grazing Regimens Edgewater Kids' Conference Session 4 Garden View Brylee Farm: New Enterprises to Bring Financial Diversity Terrace Ballroom Soil as a Climate Solution: Research, Policy and Activism Theatre

4:30pm EST

Ice Cream Social Featuring Strafford Organic Creamery Morey Room