OSU Sheep Team

Tim Fine, Extension Program Assistant, Miami County
The Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative (GLCI) will be holding their annual conference on December 13-16 in Reno, Nevada.  For more information about the conference, including agenda and registration information, visit http://www.glci.org.

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Jeff McCutcheon, Extension Educator ANR, Morrow County
To survive the current feed economy livestock producers need to graze their livestock as long as they can.  Every day livestock are meeting their nutritional needs through grazing they are being fed as economically as possible.  Typically cattle producers utilize corn residue as a feed source but, in Ohio, [...]

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Joy Aufderhaar, Agriculture Program Assistant, OSU Extension Shelby County and Roger Bender, Shelby County Extension Educator, ANR
As you looked across your pasture and hay fields this past September you may have noticed not only were the surrounding trees turning fall colors but your red clover and alfalfa were also showing colors of fall? But this [...]

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PARASITE MANAGEMENT FOR SMALL RUMINANTS BEGINS…IN THE FALL?
Rory Lewandowski, Extension Educator, Athens County
The biggest enemy of pasture based sheep and goat production has got to be internal parasites and especially, Haemonchus contortus, or barber pole worm.  Its incredible reproductive capacity, an adult female can lay up to 5000 eggs/day, combined with the fact that [...]

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Rory Lewandowski, Athens County Extension Educator
An Athens area grazing council meeting/pasture walk is scheduled for Thursday, July 23 beginning at 6:30 pm. The meeting will be hosted by Curt Cline at a Meigs County property he plans to develop into a grazing system. The land currently has no fence or water and has [...]

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Curt Stivison, Fairfield SWCD Engineering Technician and Stan Smith, Program Assistant, OSU Extension Fairfield County
Most know that for the past seven years, we’ve spent much time in Fairfield County investigating the virtues of oats as an annual forage when they are planted during mid to late summer, or even into early fall. While we’ve [...]

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Jeff McCutcheon, Extension Educator, Knox County
In Ohio it is possible to graze year round. Of course grazing in winter does take planning. Summer is the best time to plan for fall and winter grazing. Why? Because many of our options have tasks associated with them in summer. By planning ahead [...]

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Jeff McCutcheon, Extension Educator, Knox County
Fall is one of the most crucial time periods for our cool season pastures. The most important activity a livestock producer should be doing to help the pastures survive winter and remain productive next year is to avoid over-grazing.
Why is fall a critical time for our cool season perennial forages? [...]

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We invite you to join us for the Sheep Grazing tour on July 10, 2009 in Noble County. For the past two years, Ohio Forage and Grasslands Council have sponsored a pre-Sheep Day tour with Small Farm Institute, OSU Extension, OSU Sheep and Forage Teams, NRCS and Ohio Sheep Improvement Association. The cost [...]

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PASTURE MEASUREMENT
Rory Lewandowski, Extension Educator AthensCounty
Pasture measurement allows a grazier to determine an estimate of how much forage dry matter (DM) is available in a pasture paddock. Once forage DM is estimated, then the grazier can figure out how many animals can be grazed in that paddock for a given period of time. This is [...]

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