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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.

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Nebraska Fall Grazing School Registration

event details: 9/7/2023 - 9/8/2023 Export event

Grazing School registration is open! Click here to register. You have the option to pay online with a card, or pay at registration.

$99 per seat, fee includes all course instruction and materials, and meals.

Join the Nebraska Grazing Lands Coalition, and Jim Gerrish, Grazing Expert, Consultant & Speaker.

Jim Gerrish, is an independent grazing lands consultant providing services to farmers and ranchers on both private and public lands across five continents. He currently resides in the Pahsimeroi Valley of Idaho.

Early Years: He received a BS in Agronomy from the University of Illinois and MS in Crop Ecology from University of Kentucky.

From there he went on to serve 22 years of beef-forage systems research and outreach while on the faculty of the University of Missouri. The University of Missouri-Forage Systems Research Center rose to national prominence as a result of his research leadership. His research encompassed many aspects of plant-soil-animal interactions and provided foundation for many of the basic principles of Management-intensive Grazing.

He has written a regular monthly column in The Stockman Grass-Farmer magazine for over 20 years. He has authored two books on grazing and ranch management. Management-intensive Grazing: The Grassroots of Grass Farming was published in 2004 and Kick the Hay Habit: A practical guide to year-around grazing was published in 2010. He also has done a major revision of Allan Nation’s ‘Quality Pasture’ with the new 2^nd edition published in 2019.

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Education Scholarships Now Available for the 2025 Nebraska Women in Agriculture Conference

The Nebraska Women in Agriculture Conference is set to return for its annual two-day event, dedicated to educating and uplifting women involved in all aspects of Nebraska's agricultural industry. This year's conference is the 40th anniversary and will take place February 20^th – 21^st in Kearney, NE. The Nebraska Grazing Lands Coalition is proud to announce the sponsorship of this year's keynote speaker Elaine Froese.

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.