Woodford County Extension Office
C. Oran Little Research Center
Versailles, Kentucky
Wednesday May 20, 2015
7:30 Registration & refreshments
8:00 Introduction of staff and participants
8:15 Benefits of rotational grazing – Ray
Smith
8:45 Meeting nutritional needs on pasture-
Donna Amaral-Phillips
9:15 Grazing Math Concepts- Jeff
Lehmkuhler
9:45 Introduce Field Exercise-Jeff
Lehmkuhler
9:55 Travel to farm
10:20 Introduction to temporary fence- Jeremy
McGill
10:45 Portable/seasonal water and shade
systems- Kevin Laurent
11:15 Hands-on building a rotational grazing
system in the field: assessing pasture
yield and setting up small paddocks-
Smith and Lehmkuhler
12:15 Lunch at farm
1:00 Methods to assess pasture production
and determine stocking rate- Ray Smith
1:50 Travel to Woodford Co. extension office
2:15 Growth of grasses and legumes and their
response to grazing- Ray Smith
3:00 Animal disorders – Michelle Arnold
3:30 Break
4:00 Fence chargers for effective grazing-
Jeremy McGill
4:30 Fence building: Understanding how to
build and use temporary fencing and
high tensile fencing. – Jeremy McGill
5:30 Adjourn for the day-Supper on your own
Thursday May 21, 2015
7:30 Refreshments
8:00 Making tall fescue work on your farm- Ray
Smith
8:30 Implementing a grazing system- Roy Burris
9:00 Filling the gaps left by tall fescue-Ray
Smith
9:30 Cost share programs: County Programs-
Adam Probst; NRCS Programs: Richard
Bowling
10:00 Break
10:15 Minerals for grazing cattle- Donna Amaral-
Phillips
11:00 Forage establishment – Ray Smith
11:30 Fundamentals of laying out a grazing
system- Jeff Lehmkuhler
12:00 Lunch
12:45 Producer panel
1:45 Designing your own grazing system- all
2:30 Travel to farm
2:45 Field exercise. Observe grazed paddocks
and hear reports of each group. Tour
demonstration plots of spring grazing
options
5:15 Final comments
5:30 Adjourn
Registration Information
Registration Fee: $50.00 which includes all materials,
grazing manual, breaks, and lunch both days.
Registration fee must be paid to hold a place in the
grazing school. Enrollment in this grazing school is
limited to the first 45 who register.
Lodging: There are several hotels at the Hwy 60
exit off I-64 (Versailles/Frankfort, exit 58). This is
the same exit to take to come to the Grazing School
Make checks payable to:
Kentucky Forage and Grassland Council and send to
Jeff Lehmkuhler, 804 W.P. Garrigus
Building University of Kentucky, Lexington,
KY 40546-0215
For more information, contact Jeff Lehmkuhler,
Phone: 859-257-2853, email: jeff.lehmkuhler.@uky.edu
Registration Fee: $50
Pre-Registration is necessary
Co-Sponsored by
Master Grazer Educational Program
KY Agricultural Development Fund
UK College of Agriculture
Natural Resources Conservation Service
Kentucky Forage and Grassland Council