Understanding your grazing goals and farm context can help you navigate the grazing planning process more effectively and provide essential context to service providers who may assist your decision making.
Questions to get you started
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- Do you intend to increase or decrease your herd/flock size in the future? By how much?
- Do you intend to increase or decrease you鈥檙e her/flock鈥檚 production in the future? By how much?
- How intensively are you willing to manage the system? Multiple moves daily to weekly moves?
- Do you intend to increase or decrease your herd/flock鈥檚 level of intake from pasture? By how much?
- How much capital are you able to invest in the system? Are you interested in utilizing state or federal funding programs if they are available?
- How financially reliant do you want to be on your farm鈥檚 income generation?
- What impacts do you intend to have on the surrounding environment?
- How quickly are you planning to achieve these goals?