Texas grazing workshop deemed success

Producers from eight states gathered in Temple, Texas, on May 9 for the American Lamb Board’s inaugural targeted grazing workshop. The three-day event brought together sheep producers to discuss contract grazing opportunities to expand the American sheep industry.

Producers in attendance represented an estimated 30,000 head of sheep and nearly 20,000 acres of targeted grazing contracts being negotiated or finalized.

The three-day event included two classroom days, followed by a field day with a tour of a solar site, which will have sheep deployed for vegetation management on almost 5,000 acres.

In the classroom, JR Howard, producer, grazer and owner of Texas Solar Sheep, delivered regional expertise on managing a solar grazing business and building beneficial relationships with solar companies willing to use sheep and grazers to manage site vegetation.