Raising Dairy Sheep for Exceptional Milk
February 18, 2025 1pm ET
Sheep milk has a lot going for it: it's creamier and higher in protein than cow and goat milk, tends to be more digestible for people who can't tolerate other milks, and is the basis for many of the world's greatest cheeses.
Solar Grazing in the Southeast: Opportunities and Challenges
February 24, 2025 3pmET
The rapid growth of utility-scale solar farms, especially in the Southeast, is altering the agricultural landscape in many states. Concurrent with this growth has been the increasing interest and demand for utilizing sheep to manage the vegetation on these farms.
Pasture Poultry and Bird Flu: How to avoid it and what to expect if you get it
March 13, 2025 1pmET
Bird flu is a threat for everyone who raises poultry. While previous outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) had a much greater impact on large poultry producers, the current outbreak is hitting just as many small flocks as large ones. This webinar will provide information on steps pasture-based poultry producers can take to avoid becoming infected.
Selling Lesser Know Cuts: Tips and Techniques from Belmont Butchery
March 24, 2025 @1pmET
Diving deeper into the finer details of brooding to perfect the environment when chicks/poults/ducklings are first placed and how to transition them to prepare them for the pasture. For those who mostly know what they are doing when it comes to brooding. Discussing brooder design, ventilation, drafts, bedding, feed, brooding with brooder guard or whole house brooding, supplemental feeders and waters and feeder and waterer types. Basic health issues and behaviors to watch out for such as delivery stress, grouping/piling, panting, early starve-outs (3-5 days of age), late starve outs (10+ days of age) and how to correct or prevent it with management or supplements. Stressing the importance of sitting on the ground to watch how they are behaving to see where you can make tweaks that make a difference in livability and weight gain.
Advanced Brooding: Honing in on your skills
March 20, 2025 @2pmET
Diving deeper into the finer details of brooding to perfect the environment when chicks/poults/ducklings are first placed and how to transition them to prepare them for the pasture. For those who mostly know what they are doing when it comes to brooding. Discussing brooder design, ventilation, drafts, bedding, feed, brooding with brooder guard or whole house brooding, supplemental feeders and waters and feeder and waterer types. Basic health issues and behaviors to watch out for such as delivery stress, grouping/piling, panting, early starve-outs (3-5 days of age), late starve outs (10+ days of age) and how to correct or prevent it with management or supplements. Stressing the importance of sitting on the ground to watch how they are behaving to see where you can make tweaks that make a difference in livability and weight gain.
First Aid Fundamentals for Livestock: Caring for Goats, Sheep and Cows
February 4, 2025 @3pmET
Farm life is unpredictable, and emergencies with your livestock can happen at any time. Join us for this essential webinar on "First Aid Fundamentals for Livestock: Caring for Goats, Sheep and Cows", where we'll provide practical, hands-on knowledge to help you care for goats, sheep, and cows in critical situations.
Treating Farming as a Business, not a Hobby
April 1, 2025 3pmET
Join us as we dig into what makes small scale farming viable and profitable, and how you can approach your farm venture strategically to make it work for you.
Commercial Targeted Grazing with Goats 101
January 28, 2025 @3pmET
Want to get more revenue from the goats you produce and deliver a valuable service to the world at the same time? A targeted goat grazing business could be just the ticket...but be sure to go into it with your eyes wide open. Commercial targeted grazing requires an additional knowledge base and skill set, and it comes with its own unique challenges and risks. But, when approached with a professional mindset it can be the perfect profitable complement to a goat farm. Join Aaron Steele, founder of Goats On The Go®, to learn the basics of the business, including an honest discussion of all of its potential pleasures and pitfalls.
Climate Loss and Grief: Building Understanding & Resilience
October 15 , 2024
Many people are suffering from emotional consequences associated with anticipated or actual environmental changes and reacting with despair, grief, or uncertainty. Farmers, ranchers, and food producers have uniquely intimate relationships to places and landscapes, and as a result, are especially vulnerable to climate-related losses and grief.
Advocating for Higher-Welfare Farming in the New Administration: What’s Next Post-Election?
November 13, 2024
Find out what the results of the November 2024 election mean for higher-welfare farming and the Farm Bill and how you can take action to support continued progress!