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"Managing Drought Risk on the Ranch Professional Development Webinar Series"

01/04/2013

Managing Drought Risk on the Ranch: The Planning Process Jerry Volesky, Range and Forage Specialist at the West Central Research and Extension Center, and Lynn Myers, Tippets-Myers Ranch
February 27: Avoiding Analysis Paralysis: Monitoring and Setting Critical Dates for Decision Making During Drought

Dwayne Rice, Rangeland Management Specialist, NRCS, Kansas; Ted Alexander, Alexander; and Cal Adams, Adams Ranch

March 27: The New Cumulative Forage Reduction (CFR) Index: Assessing Drought Impacts and Planning a Grazing Strategy Pat Reece, owner and senior consultant of Prairie Montane Enterprises and Professor Emeritus of the University of Nebraska – Lincoln

April 24: Using a Drought Calculator to Assist Stocking Decisions Stan Boltz, State Range Management Specialist, NRCS-SD and Jeff Printz, Range Management Specialist, NRCS -ND

May 29: Economic Factors to Weigh in Making Decisions during Drought Matt Stockton, Agricultural Economist at the West Central Research and Extension Center in North Platte, Nebraska

Time for all webinars is 10:00 am Central Time

Each session will include a briefing on current drought status, followed by a session on a specific topic or tool related to drought planning.The sessions are free and open to the public. Registration is required to receive the Adobe Connect webinar link. Register: http://go.unl.edu/uwk.

More information can be found at http://drought.unl.edu/ranchplan. Contact Tonya Haigh, 402?472?6781,
thaigh2@unl.edu, with questions.

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