1-Day Grazing School
Thu, Nov 20
|Ruston
Join us for this grazing school crash course to learn about all things grazing in Louisiana.
Time & Location
Nov 20, 2025, 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Ruston, 910 N Trenton St, Ruston, LA 71270, USA
About the Event
This training is open to professionals and producers. Taught by Mark Kennedy, who developed the step method of pasture condition scoring.
By the end of this workshop, you should be able to identify North Louisiana's common grasses and weeds, fill out a pasture condition score sheet, and understand and complete the transects and pasture condition score process required when inventorying all pasturelands in Louisiana.
Tentative agenda (subject to change):
8:30: Introduction to Management- intensive Grazing
9:00: Plant Growth, Quality and Persistence
9:45: Matching Animals to Forage Supply
10:30: Break
10:45: Matching Forages to Animal Needs
11:30: Lunch
12:00: Grazier’s Arithmetic
1:00: Design and Layout of Grazing System
2:00: Weeds
3:00: Weed ID in the field
4:30: Adjourn
