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Our Purpose

Dedicated to the enhancement of grasslands, the Nebraska Grazing Lands Coalition is comprised of ranchers and private landowners all focused on creating public awareness and improvement of the grazing lands in Nebraska. The organization’s top focus is to provide voluntary technical assistance and educational opportunities on grazing land management. Healthy Nebraska grazing lands translate directly into forage for livestock, habitat for wildlife, economic benefits for landowners and rural communities, and clean water for much of the Great Plains.

Upcoming Events

Holistic Resource Management - O’Neill, NE

event details: 1/15/2020 9:00 AM - 1/16/2020 5:00 PM Export event

The Nebraska Grazing Lands Coalition and
Nebraska Extension Present:
Holistic Resource Management
Featuring HRM Certified Educator, Ralph Tate

Ralph became a Certified HRM Educator in 2010 and has a passion for teaching Introduction to HRM, Financial Planning, Grazing Planning, and Biological Monitoring. Participants will have the opportunity to apply the HRM principles to their own operations during these two day hands-on workshops. Ralph custom grazes cattle in south central Nebraska where he has had the opportunity to apply holistic management principles in his own grazing enterprise. Nature's complexity and resilience becomes evident following the application of HRM principles

2 Nebraska Locations

January 8 & 9, 2020

9:00 AM – 5 PM (Central time, both days) -

Contact T. L. Meyer, Nebraska Beef Systems Extension Educator, Central Sandhills District

308 645 2267; email: [email protected]

January 15 & 16, 2020

9:00 AM - 5 PM (Central time, both days) Holt County Extension Office, O’Neill, NE

Contact Amy Timmerman, Nebraska Crops and Water Extension Educator, Holt County

402 336 2760; email: [email protected]

$50 / person payable to NGLC at the door. Covers all handout materials and meals. Limited to the first 20 registrants. Must preregister by January 2 to reserve a space by calling the UNL Extension office indicated. For more information, contact Ron Bolze, Coordinator, NGLC, 402 321 0067 (cell) or [email protected].

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Featured Producer

Grazing management, stockmanship and family each key to ranching efforts

(Jan. 18, 2019) – Determination, hard work and a willingness to learn have been key to Ryan and Jamie Sexson’s ranching efforts. Ryan and Jamie both grew up in the Nebraska Sandhills with a passion for ranching, but were often told there was no future for them in ranching. After various jobs on and off ranches, in 2014, the couple was able to lease a small ranch near Nenzel, Neb. Today, they are raising their three young children – ages 11, 9, and 8 – in the ranching lifestyle as they custom graze and calve heifers and cows. Ryan also still does day work for area ranches.