Utilizing Outreach and Grazing to Improve Conservation and Soil Health

Livestock producers should perceive themselves as a grass farmer and not just a livestock producer. The most successful producers look at themselves a step further, as soil managers. This project will conduct outreach, education and demonstration activities on how prescribed grazing impacts pasture and range productivity, conservation and soil health using rainfall simulators. The use of the rainfall simulator will help historically underserved producers to visualize and comprehend the potential for greater rainfall infiltration and lesser rainfall runoff on grazing lands with a high level of grazing management.