The Midwest Perennial Forage Working Group’s mission is to facilitate an increase in land used for pasture and perennial forage production in the Upper Midwest, and to improve the environmental performance of farming systems, while maintaining agricultural production and profitability.
This group has committed to involvement in Working Group operations:
participating in quarterly meetings (three conference calls and one in-person meeting),
and participating in and advising on projects on an ongoing basis.
Midwest Perennial Forage Working Group conducted this project in 2017 – 2018 with funding from USDA-Risk Management Agency.
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Perennial Forage for Infrastructure Protection
The Midwest Perennial Forage Working Group (MPFWG) was awarded a SARE Research & Education grant for the proposed project, “Match Made in Heaven: Livestock + Crops.” The project will survey producers in six Midwestern states about the opportunities and barriers related to integration or re-integration of livestock and crop production with the goal of identifying strategies to capture the environmental, economic, and social benefits of diverse crop rotations and integrated systems.
The three year project will create opportunities for farmers to speak about their interests, challenges, and needs, and allow the crop and livestock organizations that they engage with to adapt their programming to meet current and future interests and needs.
Laura Paine, GrassWorks, lkpaine@gmail.com
Jane Jewett, Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, jewet006@umn.edu
Are you a grazing specialist, land manager, or grazing educator? Want to be involved in the development of grazing education? Join the Midwest Perennial Forage Working Group!
We meet approximately quarterly by conference call and once or twice per year in person.
Co-Chairs are Laura Paine of Dairy Grazing Apprenticeship and Jim Paulson, grazing consultant.
Laura Paine | lkpaine@gmail.com | 608-338-9039
Jim Paulson | jcp@umn.edu
The Midwest Perennial Forage Working Group has organized perennial forage and grazing sessions at Green Lands Blue Waters conferences.
Proceedings of those conference sessions are available online:
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2015 Webinars:
Are you a grazing specialist, land manager, or grazing educator?
Want to be involved in the development of grazing education?
Join the Midwest Perennial Forage Working Group!
We meet approximately quarterly by conference call and once or twice per year in person.
Co-Chairs are Laura Paine of Dairy Grazing Apprenticeship and Jim Paulson, grazing consultant.
Laura Paine, lkpaine@gmail.com, 608-338-9039
Jim Paulson, jcp@umn.edu
