Rooted in Resilience: Grazing Small Ruminants in Kentucky. This would be a great opportunity for beginning shepherds or veteran herdsmen to attend and learn more about grazing small ruminants.

Rooted in Resilience: Grazing Small Ruminants in Kentucky. This would be a great opportunity for beginning shepherds or veteran herdsmen to attend and learn more about grazing small ruminants.

The Illinois Grazing Lands Coalition’s Northern Grazing School will be held at the Greg Thoren Farm. Greg is the 2026 recipient of the Leopold Conservation Award for Illinois.

Schuette Signature Beef provides the perfect backdrop for the Illinois Grazing Lands Coalition’s Grazing School. We’ll spend the day discussing Evan’s regenerative and holistic cattle operation.

Be creative as you plan a successful regenerative grazing system using adaptive practices. The contest includes a short quiz on your understanding of adaptive grazing practices. Then, apply what you’ve learned by mapping out a grazing system, including forage maintenance, pasture design, and grazing rotation schedules.

The Cluster Cluck 5000 is back in action. Join us to see updates to our mobile livestock barn designed for easier use, hear what we learned in 2025, and meet the 2026 animals.

Our second session of our Women of the Land Retreat, will explore the soil and how it impacts our bodies, her-stories, and daily lives.

Learn what other Illinois producers are doing to improve their grazing and forage operations.

An all-star lineup explores the benefits of regenerative grazing practices for producers and soil, including forage development, bale grazing, livestock nutritional needs, and pasture management.

Speak up for your interests at the Indiana Forage Council Annual Meeting.

Learn what other Illinois producers are doing to improve their grazing and forage operations.

Learn what other Illinois producers are doing to improve their grazing and forage operations.

Get updates from the Dudley Smith Research Farm, including cattle production and profitability, cattle market outlook, and soil health.

At this unique educational and social event, farmers, landowners, and supporters come together to gain practical skills, brainstorm creative solutions, share success stories, and build community.

Our Grow and Graze webinars connect producers to peers and experts who have implemented successful grazing strategies.

Pasture Nutrient Management: Join us for a discussion on pasture fertility management and how virtual fencing might be a tool for improved nutrient distribution. 

Grow and Graze is designed to connect producers to peers and experts who have successfully implemented grazing strategies. We’re creating a space where producers can share what’s working in their grazing systems and help one another make more informed, profitable decisions.

David Dedert farms with his father, Dean, raising corn, soybeans, wheat, cattle and sheep near Quincy, Illinois. Part of their operation includes being farm operators at Twin Mill Farm, a 90-acre family farm that has been in the Mittelberg family for over 100 years.

Intensive Grazing on Perennial Systems: During this session we will talk about the opportunity for virtual fencing in perennial pastures. Learn about intensive grazing management techniques in relation to forage availability. 

Hear from experienced farmers using cover crops and other practices that are improving soil health, reducing stress, cutting input costs, and building farm legacy.

Opportunities for Grazing on Cropland: Learn about potential species to plant, when to plant them, and how to use virtual fencing to best take advantage of those forage sources.

When you nurture your pastures, you enhance animal health and reduce costs. That’s the lesson you’ll learn at the Fresh Pasture Farms Pasture Walk from 5 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, July 9.