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A day-long workshop to address the needs of small horse farms. Includes lectures and hands-on field demonstrations by professionals. Learn about conservation practices that benefit land, water and animals. Pasture and grazing management Plant identification and selection Maintaining healthy soils Farm management for healthy water Manure management and composting Nutrient management planning $35 per person. […]

Demonstrating conversion of wildtype to novel endophyte fescue pastures for greater livestock performance and better environmental outcomes.  Please RSVP by calling the Southern Piedmont AREC at 434-818-5545 by August 20th. Registration begins at 6 pm with a sponsored meal.  Honeycutt pasture walk 2018 flyer

Join us at the Giles County Agriculture Land Lab for a Summer Pasture Walk on Wednesday August 29th to learn more about how endophyte infected tall fescue reduces livestock weight gains and lowers reproductive performance. This twilight pasture walk will give you tools and information needed to better understand why and how toxic fescue could […]

VFGC partners with the Carroll Grayson Cattle Producers Assn. to host a summer pasture walk and field day August 9th at Stephen Turner’s Farm in Laurel Fork, VA. Mr. Turner has implemented many conservation and grazing practices on his farm which now allows him to graze more cows on less acres and feed less hay. […]

Join us at Lund Angus Farm on the evening of July 19th for a tour and pasture walk with Dick and Mary Lund in Appomattox County. The Lund’s have developed a grass fed and finished Black Angus beef system using different forages and grazing techniques as part of a conservation grazing plan. This event will […]

On Wednesday, September 12, 2018, Virginia Cooperative Extension and the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences will host the Kentland Beef & Forage Day. This event will highlight the research at Kentland Farm as well as focus on hay quality and baleage production. Speakers from VCE, VT, and industry will deliver workshops and […]

Hay workshop to be held at the Prince Edward Extension Office, June 29th from 8:30 to 2.  For more information and to register email sheldae@vt.edu or call 434-392-42460 Hay Workshop 2018 Flyer

Pasture Walk August 17, 2017 Demonstrating conversion of wildtype to novel endophyte fescue pastures for greater livestock performance and better environmental outcomes Tall fescue compared to a highly productive summer annual mix in neighboring field after 30 days of no rain. A variety of summer annuals have been donated by Halifax SWCD, Dodd’s Farm Supply, […]

Maximizing animal performance on pastures in summer is a game of minimizing stresses and putting the best bite of forage possible in front of the animal. Join us to learn about summer grazing strategies, herd health, forage management, and more. $5 /person payable at the door, but must RSVP by Friday, Aug. 11 to reserve your […]

The VFGC will be holding it’s 2017 Fencing School at four locations this year.  The each school will run from 8:00 am to 5:00 and the locations are as follows March 22 at Dobyns Community Center, Stuart, VA March 29 at Thompson Valley Community Center, Tazewell, VA April 5 at John H. Enders Vol Fire Department, Berryville, VA  April 12 at Beck-N-Rich Farm, Raphine, VA 2017 […]