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The Northwestern Illinois Grazing Freedom Hills Ranch/ Adolph Red AngusMt. Conference is an excellent workshop Carroll, IL - Randy Adolph. Commercial beef & opportunity for livestock producers and purebred Red Angus operation with 700 cows and over 1,000 cropping acres. Herds pastured on 1,400 Northwest Illinois others to fine-tune their knowledge about acres of managed lands - 900 are open and another Grazing Conference grazing through hearing from several 500 acres divided into paddocks. All pastures are successful beef, sheep and dairy graziers annually fertilized and sprayed for weed control. ------who have incorporated managed grazing in their operations. Given the rising cost of Gene Schriefer, Dodgeville, WI Multi-species livestock grazier whose operation farm inputs, grazing may make greater currently includes beef (30 cows) and sheep (300 sense in managing today’s farm expenses. ewes). Also works for University of Wisconsin Extension as agriculture agent serving Iowa County. Consider making plans now to join us in Stockton on December 8. It will be time well John Scidmore, Morrison, IL - Dairy grazier intensively managing 26 acres for lactating cows spent! Please keep in mind that reservations A Grazing Conference using poly wire to provide fresh breaks of one-third are due by December 1. to one-half acre. 28 additional acres of rotated Sharing Perspectives pastures for dry cows and 30 more acres for heifers and yearlings; 170 cropping acres and 50 acres for ------Conference Guest Presenters hay; 15 acres of sorghum-sudangrass for grazing and - baleage in 2009; planted turnips in 2008 and 2009. Ed Ballard, Grazing Consultant; Farm Manager, CR VIEW Dairy, Stockton, IL - Delmar & University of Illinois Dudley Smith Farm. Guest Theresa Westaby. Certified organic dairy since presenter at numerous national, regional and local 2002. Farm milks 81 registered Holsteins and Tuesday, December 8, 2009 grazing conferences and schools, a co-author of includes 200 animals of all ages with all being home- 9:30 a.m. – 2:40 p.m. grazing handbooks and recently retired Animal raised. In addition to the 240 cropping acres, farm Systems Educator with Univ. of Illinois Extension, Holy Cross Church makes 160 acres of hay annually and utilizes 245 Ed has spent his entire career in animal agriculture 223 E. Front Ave., Stockton, IL pasture acres for livestock grazing with 14 acres set working with producers and industry groups to up in separate paddocks with break wires for enhance farm profitability and sustainability. intensive grazing of the milking herd.

Dr. Larry Tranel; Iowa State University DeKap Angus Farm, Lanark, IL - Duane Kruse Extension Dairy Field Specialist. Covering such Diversified livestock farm with a purebred 100 cow Sponsors topic areas as management intensive grazing, herd raising bulls and replacement females, and Northwestern Illinois Grazing Workgroup utilization of forages, new and remodeled freestalls, finishing cattle in the farm feedlot; operation includes Carroll, Jo Daviess & Stephenson NRCS/SWCD parlors and other livestock facility planning; and farm 90 acres of pastures and aerial seeding of rye on 85 Illinois Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative family labor/personnel management, Dr Tranel has corn acres and 15 soybean acres in 2009. Illinois Forage and Grasslands Council been a guest presenter at numerous meetings and Blackhawk Hills RC&D conferences. An extension professional since 1989, Jim Foster, Chadwick, IL - Dairy goat operation Northwestern Illinois Forage & Grasslands Council Dr. Tranel had also been a dairy producer from 1986 that is now milking 80 head. Currently utilizes 13 University of Illinois Extension to 1999 transitioning to dairy grazing in the process. pasture acres mainly for dry goats and kids.

Northwestern Illinois Grazing Conference Registration Form Tuesday, December 8, 2009 Holy Cross Church, Stockton, IL NW Illinois Grazing Conference (located ½ mile south of Rt. 20 & Rt 78 intersection near downtown Stockton; go one block east on Front Ave.) December 8, 2009

9:30 a.m. Registration & Refreshments Name(s) 9:45 a.m. Welcome - Mark Maidak, Northwestern Illinois Grazing Workgroup Coordinator

9:50 a.m. The Grazing Advantage – You Can Make It Happen Address Ed Ballard, Grazing Consultant and Beef Herd Manager

10:15 a.m. Break / Visit Exhibits City

10:35 a.m. My 15 Year Experience Grazing Annuals in the Fall and Winter State Zip Gene Schriefer, Dodgeville, WI – Beef and Sheep Grazier Phone ( )

11:00 a.m. Grazing – How We Got Started, What We Have Learned Registration Fee Received by December 1: John Scidmore, Morrison, IL – Dairy Grazier $20 per person

11:15 a.m. Extending the Grazing Season to Reduce Stored Feeds Registration Fee Received after Dec. 1: Ed Ballard, Grazing Consultant $30 per person Duane Kruse, Beef Producer (aerial seeding of rye into corn/soybeans) Make checks payable to University of 11:50 p.m. Lunch / Visit Exhibits Illinois Extension and mail to: 12:50 p.m. $$ Million Dollar Farms through Dairy Grazing Jo Daviess County Extension Dr. Larry Tranel, Iowa State Extension Dairy Field Specialist 204 Vine Street, Box 600 1:10 p.m. Tips and Tricks from Observing Successful Graziers Elizabeth IL 61028 Dr. Larry Tranel, Iowa State Extension Dairy Field Specialist Phone: 815-858-2273 You may also register on-line and pay by 1:30 p.m. Grazing – How We Got Started, What We Have Learned Theresa & Delmar Westaby, Stockton, IL - Organic Dairy Producers credit card at http://jdc.extension.uiuc.edu Randall Adolph, Mt. Carroll, IL – Beef Producer Jim Foster, Chadwick, IL – Dairy Goat Producer If you need a reasonable accommodation to participate in this program, please contact 2:25 p.m. Establishing a Grazing Network in NW Illinois Mark Maidak at 815-858-2273.

2:40 p.m. Evaluations & Adjourn

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