First Annual
Ranch Sustainability Forum
May 12-14, 2014
Purpose: To provide informational resources and tools for ranch stakeholders that will help provide healthy and sustainable ranches in 2020 and beyond.
For reservations call Emily at Padlock Ranch 307-655-2264 or emily@padlockranch.com
Draft agenda; some changes may be made but speakers are confirmed.
May 12
Low stress livestock handling: Whit Hibbard (at Sheridan College) ($30)
Range monitoring; Charlie Orchard (at Padlock Ranch) Learn the Land EKG techniques for range monitoring. Size limited to 20 people. 15 spots left. ($200 which is one half of regular price)
May 13
Low stress livestock handling (continued)
Range Monitoring (continued)
5:30-6:30pm Open house and Social Hour (University of Wyoming Ag Experiment Station, Watt Building)
7:00pm Dinner with keynote speaker (Bob Langert, VP McDonald’s Corporate Sustainability)($20)
May 14 Symposium ($20)
Dr. Paul Young; Agriculture at Sheridan College
Wayne Fahsholtz; “Why Are We Talking about Sustainability?”
Dr. Jude Capper “Marketing in a World of Sustainability Concerns.”
Burke Teichart “Three Keys to Healthy Ranch Businesses”
Dr. Trey Patterson “Real Life, Low Cost Replacement Heifer Strategies”
WWF speaker; “Why WWF is concerned about ranching”
Brian Mealor; U of Wyoming; Range Weed Status and Control
Hosted by: Sheridan College, Padlock Ranch and Fahsholtz’s AgWin Group, First Interstate Bank,
University of Wyoming,
(others)
Contact: For reservations call Emily at Padlock Ranch 307-655-2264 or emily@padlockranch.com
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