Outreach on Grazing Lands to Enhance Economic Analysis (Cost Benefits) for Conservation Changes

The National Grazing Lands Coalition (NGLC) and partners proposes to conduct a 3 year outreach/education/demonstrations on how prescribed grazing impacts pasture and range productivity, economics, and conservation. The cornerstone the project will be the analysis of how grazing management systems and the kind/class of animals influence economic performance at the enterprise level. NGLC will work with a large group of producers, located in several different geographic areas, to assemble economic data that can link improvements in management to economic returns. The project will look at flexible herd management for rangeland and pastureland operations, some with silvopasture emphasis, that will allow NGLC to link soil health, stocking rates and drought response with economic performance.