Pasture Management Workshops
Project Objectives
- Bring resource people and grazing management info to Peace region
- Provide support and mentorship for members wishing to adopt more intensive grazing management of their pastures
- Organized agenda and resource people for 4 days of grazing management in 2002
- Sessions 1, 2, 3 & 4 held successfully in January, April, July and September
- Organized funding and industry support
- Organized advertising and registration
- Arranged fencing and water systems demonstrations/displays
- Assembled additional reference materials for binders
- Final reports compiled
- Organize another Pasture Management Workshop series in 2004 or 2005, if there is interest
- Agriculture Canada and Agri Food Canada (PFRA)
- BC Ministry of Agriculture Food and Fisheries
- Western Forage Beef Group
- Peace River Agriculture Development Fund
- Beef Cattle Industry Development Fund
- Small Woodlands Program of BC
- Gallagher Fencing, Fort Assiniboine, AB
- Ducks Unlimited, Tomslake, BC
- Keddies Tack & Western Wear, Grande Prairie, AB
- CRC Vet Supplies, Dawson Creek, BC
- Kane Vet Supplies, Calgary, AB
- Prairie Seeds, Dawson Creek, BC
- Pickseed Canada, Dawson Creek, BC
- Rolla Agri Services, Rolla, BC
- Dow Agro Sciences, Edmonton, AB
- Peace Tractor Ltd., Dawson Creek, BC
- Agro Source, Dawson Creek, BC
- Bill Wilson
- Sandra Burton
- Jim Forbes
- Participants have binder of all information
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