Success StoryAdapting to Change: Designing Resilient Forage-Livestock Systems



Adapting to Change: Designing Resilient Forage-Livestock Systems

Author: Christopher Teutsch

Planning Unit: Plant and Soil Sciences

Major Program: Forages

Outcome: Initial Outcome

Adapting to Change: Designing Resilient Forage-Livestock Systems

Chris Teutsch, Jimmy Henning, and Ray Smith, University of Kentucky 

Cow-calf producers in Kentucky face changing conditions in both the immediate and distant future.  Realizing this, the theme of this year’s grazing conference was “designing resilient forage-livestock grazing systems for the transition zone of the United States”.   This year’s keynote speaker was Johnny Rogers, a North Carolina farmer, Amazing Grazing Coordinator at North Carolina State University, and President of the Red Angus Association.  Rogers’s talk focused on selecting animal genetics that are adapted to changing conditions.  Other topics covered during the three-night conference included soil fertility, forage species selection, managing economic risk, utilizing existing resources, USDA research update, and a historical perspective on 50 years of change in the forage livestock industry.  More than 100 individuals attend this conference virtually and all presentations were recorded and are available on the KYForages YouTube Channel.  These videos have been viewed more than 2,500 times.  

 






Stories by Christopher Teutsch


Seeing is Believing: Improving Grazing Management with Summer Forage Tours

about 3 years ago by Christopher Teutsch

Seeing is Believing: Improving Grazing Management with Summer Forage ToursChris Teutsch, Jimmy Henni... Read More


Adapting to Change: Designing Resilient Forage-Livestock Systems

about 3 years ago by Christopher Teutsch

Adapting to Change: Designing Resilient Forage-Livestock SystemsChris Teutsch, Jimmy Henning, and Ra... Read More


Stories by Plant and Soil Sciences


Forage group completes national publication on 'Grazing Alfalfa'

Forage group completes national publication on 'Grazing Alfalfa'

about 3 years ago by Jimmy Henning

Grazing AlfalfaRay Smith, Krista Lea, and Jimmy HenningThe UK Forage Group has recently completed a ... Read More


UK Forage Group Establishes Teaching Pastures at Locust Trace AgriScience Center

UK Forage Group Establishes Teaching Pastures at Locust Trace AgriScience Center

about 3 years ago by Jimmy Henning

UK Forage Group Establishes Teaching Pastures at Locust Trace AgriScience CenterSpecialists and Staf... Read More


Stories by Forages


Forage group completes national publication on 'Grazing Alfalfa'

Forage group completes national publication on 'Grazing Alfalfa'

about 3 years ago by Jimmy Henning

Grazing AlfalfaRay Smith, Krista Lea, and Jimmy HenningThe UK Forage Group has recently completed a ... Read More


UK Forage Group Establishes Teaching Pastures at Locust Trace AgriScience Center

UK Forage Group Establishes Teaching Pastures at Locust Trace AgriScience Center

about 3 years ago by Jimmy Henning

UK Forage Group Establishes Teaching Pastures at Locust Trace AgriScience CenterSpecialists and Staf... Read More