Date: July 18, 2015

Location: Wild Acres Family Farm, 5963 Rt. 98, Great Valley, NY 14741
Time: 1:00pm-4:00pm
Join NOFA-NY and Don Wild at Wild Acres Family Farm to learn how to make better use of your forages through small scale intensive pasture management.  Don Wild  will demonstrate how he manages his pastures for optimum health in his sheep flock, reducing pest pressures while producing a highly nutritious forage diet.  He will show examples of expanding your grazing capacity through incorporating small grains, summer annuals and alternative forages into your pasture plan.  Don will also discuss fencing options including polywire, polytape, electro netting and high tensile fencing. Don is a past NRCS grazing specialist and is still active as a grazing consultant and Kings Agri-seed dealer etc. He will show how he is able to make his 3 acre diversified farm highly productive. Wild Acres Family Farm is a small diversified farm specializing in small ruminant management, multispecies grazing and vegetable production.
Dr. tatiana Stanton from Cornell University will join us to discuss the on-farm study that Wild Acres is part of, looking at the effect of grazing birdsfoot trefoil on parasitic worm populations in sheep.
Registration Instructions: To pre-register and pay, shop online at http://www.nofany.org/events/field-days/making-better-use-forages-and-pasture-systems or call Stephanie at 585-271-1979 ext. 509. The fees are $15/person or $25 for two or more people/farm. Pre-registration is encouraged and closes at 4pm on 7/16/15.

Sponsors/Funders: This event is produced by NOFA-NY in conjunction with the Cornell Sheep and Goat Program with support from the USDA-Risk Management Agency, USDA OREI and NESARE