- Author: Devii R. Rao
Don't miss the San Benito County Cattlemen's Association Annual Meeting & Dinner! Board members will barbecuing. Click here for the flyer.
This will be a great event with food, friends, and a fantastic guest speaker: Frank Mitloehner. Frank is Professor and Air Quality Extension Specialist at UC Davis. He will share his research clarifying the influence of cattle on climate change. And I will give an update on prescribed fire efforts in San Benito and Monterey counties.
All are welcome to join the meeting. Remember, if you are a cattleman and you've let your membership lapse, now is a great time to renew your membership. And to make it even easier for you, click here for the membership form.
Meeting Details
When: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 from 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm
Where: 101 Livestock Market, 4400 US-101, Aromas, CA 95004
Cost: $15 Per Person
R.S.V.P. to Matt Manning at sbccattlemens@yahoo.com or 831-801-6685. Checks can be sent to SBC Cattlemen's at P.O Box 820 Hollister, CA 95023.
See you there!
San Benito Cattlemen's Annual Meeting Flyer
San Benito County Cattlemen’s Membership Form
- Author: Devii R. Rao
Are you looking for new ways to market your livestock or other products from your ranch?
Join us on November 20 from 8:30 am to 3:30 pm at Elkhorn Slough to learn about marketing principles, negotiation, selling animals through 101 Livestock Market, challenges and successes of selling grassfed beef, selling whole animals, creating value added products, healthy soil practices, and more. Speakers will include Jim Warren from 101 Livestock, Julie Morris from Morris Grassfed, and Dina Izzo from BlueBog Consulting.
Sarah Lopez will also take us on a tour of Fiesta Farm and talk about marketing of her animals.
The cost is $15 and includes lunch. Click here for the flyer with more details.
RSVP : Pam Krone (by 11/15/19) pam.krone@noaa.gov or 831-647-4238.
Marketing 11.20.19
- Author: Devii R. Rao
Register now to learn how to increase profit on your ranch! This is a workshop not to be missed.
We were lucky enough to get Dave Pratt, owner of Ranch Management Consultants, to come talk to local producers about tools that can help you increase effectiveness, reduce stress and create business success. Additional speakers will include Pam Krone and Devii Rao.
Date: Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Time: 8:00 - 3:30
Location: Moss Landing Marine Lab: 8272 Moss Landing Road, Moss Landing, with an afternoon field tour at Monkeyflower Ranch.
Cost: $40 includes lunch, (scholarships available)
RSVP: pam.krone@noaa.gov or 831-647-4238
Registration Deadline: September 19
Workshop Topics will include the following:
- Transforming your ranch into a sustainable business
- Three secrets for increasing profit
- Using cell grazing to increase profit and improve rangeland in California
- Local cost and revenue study
- Soil improvement and carbon sequestration through conservation practices
- Monkeyflower Ranch Business Planning and Farm Tour
For additional information, check out the flyer: https://ucanr.edu/blogs/LNRBlog/blogfiles/62442.pdf.
- Author: Devii R. Rao
Stephanie Larson, Livestock and Range Management Advisor in Sonoma County is making a comprehensive list of people who do targeted grazing. Below is an email Stephanie recently sent out...
In the wake of the devastating wildfires that affected Sonoma County, I reached out to many of you to discuss how we might increase vegetation management through grazing. Working with the Rangeland Management Advisory Committee (RMAC), I am creating a list of individuals interested in performing targeted grazing. This list is open to all contract grazers in California.
As several of you have also experienced recent wildfires in your counties, I invite you to share this survey and request with any contacts in your counties who might be interested in being listed on the “Match.Graze” list.
This list will be published online so that landowners, agencies, etc. can be easily find a contract grazer in their respective counties. Grazers can complete the survey at: https://ucanr.edu/survey/survey.cfm?surveynumber=27609.
Please let me know if you have any questions or need additional information.
Thank you in advance for sending out this survey.
You can reach Stephanie at slarson@ucanr.edu.
- Author: Devii R. Rao
We are gauging interest in a workshop on the topic that would include speakers who successfully implement hunting enterprises in California. The workshop would cover:
- Income earning potential
- Various hunting enterprise arrangements (guided, clubs, etc.)
- Logistics and considerations
- Lease agreements / contracts
- Liability
- CDFW Private Lands Programs
- Landowner / Outfitter / Hunting club panel
Please contact me at drorao@ucanr.edu or 831-637-5346 x14, if you would be interested in attending this type of workshop. If there is enough interest, I will work with Luke Macaulay, UCCE Rangeland Policy & Planning Specialist, who has researched hunting operations, to organize the workshop.
I look forward to hearing from you!
