Save the Date: "Time To Change"-A Chip Hines Event

Five Rivers RC&D and the Southeast Nebraska Grassland Association (SENGA) are partnering once again to offer a low-cost, high-quality grazing management workshop featuring Chip Hines. The one day conference is scheduled for Saturday, December 7th, 2013 at the American Legion Building in Virginia, NE. Registration begins at 8:15 am with the presentation beginning at 9:00 am and concluding at  5 pm with dinner following the conference.

Chip Hines says, “My thinking tends to wonder off the trail of standard thought form time to time and I have fun doing this.” Chip is a well-known grazier from the plains for eastern Colorado. He uses the experiences he has gained in life to write on many different subjects and isn’t afraid to share what he thinks about life in general. Chip’s books include: Time to Change, How Did We Get it So Wrong, and A Slantwise Guide to Prosperity.

CHIP’S STEPS TO INCREASING YOUR GRAZING IQ

By attending Chip will help you to in-crease your “Grazing IQ” by discussing the following strategies and ideas in depth:

· Two most important steps to change cattle management

· Building the traits of “real cows”

· Doing things “the cattleman way and not the university way”

· Setting up a cattle management outline

· Building a grazing plans on nature’s model

· Using grazing management to re-new life in grassland environments

· Changing your mindset from continuous grazing to planned grazing

· Achieving the goal of increased soil life

· Increasing pasture production, cattle numbers and profit

In Chip’s presentation he will describe in detail “where we have gone wrong and what must be done to build profitable operations without sup-porting the input industry.”

Register by filling out our online form today or contact the office at 402-869-2355 or 5rivers.meints@gmail.com for more information.

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