Growing Solutions
Building agriculture that is good for everyone.
Strong roots build strong foundations.
Your future depends on today’s decisions. To create the legacy you want, you need trusted advice that is financially sound for your operation and environmentally healthy for your land. You’ve found the help you need. This peer network offers resources tested on farms just like yours by people just like you.
Build a future that thrives.
2025 Annual Grazing Conference
Maximizing Every Acre with Managed Grazing
The ILGLC Grazing Conference offers a unique opportunity for producers to gain practical knowledge, see how grazing systems can improve farm profitability, and address challenges like fencing, water systems, and rotational grazing. Whether you’re raising cattle, sheep, goats, or other livestock, the conference provides insights and resources to enhance your operation’s productivity and sustainability.
Our Shared Vision
This is what we’re working toward. Together, we’ll see it become reality.
Illinois farmers and ranchers will lead the way in creating an environmentally sound and economically thriving agro-ecosystem by adopting more regenerative practices that minimize soil disturbance, maximize crop diversity, keep soil covered, maintain living root systems year round, and integrate livestock in ways that support healthy soils, clear waterways, and clean air.
“Regenerative Grazing is a principle-driven farming practice of building soil health naturally through pasturing animals on perennial and annual forages and grasses with low or no synthetic inputs, and in a way that supports human and ecosystem health, farm profitability, and community and food system resilience.”
— Roadmap for Expanding Regenerative Grazing in Illinois, Pasture Project