8:30 am - 9:30 am
Registration, coffee, pastries, vendor set up
9:30 am - 10:30 am
Tom Kilcer, Advanced Ag Systems, will discuss best
management practices for planting, harvesting and
storing brown mid rib sorghum sudan. He will also
discuss triticale as a pasture and hay crop.
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Break, visit with vendors
11:00 am - Noon
Neil Dennis, Sunnybrae Farm, Will cover a topic with a
very interesting title. “If You Are Going To Be Lazy,
Get Good At It.” He will talk about how he handles
1,000 animals without stress to the animals or the
operator.
Noon - 1:30 pm
Lunch, visit with other producers & vendors
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Jim Taylor, Sunny Acres Farm, will discuss how his
farm has transitioned over the past 40 years from a
cow/calf operation to a meat goat operation while at
the same time moving from a traditional management
style to a grass-based one.
2:30 - 2:45 pm
Stretch break
2:45 pm - 4:00 pm
Neil Dennis will continue his talk about designing paddocks and tools to make cattle handling easier.
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Speaker Panel
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Networking with speakers and other producers
6:30 - 8:30 pm
Banquet with a variety of grass-finished meats
The Seventh Annual
Saturday, January 31, 2015
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Vendor booths open, speaker books for sale
9:00 am - 10:15am
Gary Kleppel, Professor of Biology at SUNY Albany,
will talk about the changing paradigm in food production in the United States an its effect on the environment, the economy and society-at-large.
10:15 am - 10:45 am
Break, short vendor presentations
10:45 am - Noon
Allan Nation, Editor, Stockman Grass Farmer, will discuss the trends in grassland agriculture and how to
profit from them.
Noon - 1:30 pm
Lunch and visit with
other producers and vendors
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Paul VanAmburg and Tim Joseph will talk about how
they transitioned from feeding their cows conventionally to a grass based dairy. Tim will discuss how the
Maple Hill creamery brand of yogurt has grown and
Paul will discuss his role as a milk supply manager.
2:30 - 2:45 pm
Stretch break
Thank you for attending
Grassfed to finish,
management intensive grazing,
building soil health with
animal impact, winter feeds
We are really excited about our lineup of speakers this
year including our two keynote speakers, Allan Nation
who is well known for the many articles and editorials
he writes as managing editor of the Stockman Grass
Farmer and Neil Dennis, a Saskatchewan farmer who
has spoken at many conferences on various topics
related to grazing and holistic management.
Friday, January 30, 2015
8:30 am – 9:00 pm
Saturday, January 31, 2015
9:00 am – 4:00 pm
A couple of reflective comments from participants
at previous Green Up Conferences...
The Century House
Rte 9
(Exit 7 off the Northway)
Latham, NY 12210
-”This conference has brought the grazing community
together.”
-”Local sourced food puts this conference over the
top!”
-”I always return home with lots of food for thought.”
-”The soil health topic was a life changer.”
2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
Allan Nation will continue his discussion on trends in
grassland agriculture.
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm
Wrap up, final questions and participant
suggestions for 2016 topics and speakers
Winter Green-Up
Grass-Fed Grazing
Conference
Cornell Cooperative Extension and Black Queen
Angus are proud to present the 7th Annual Winter
Green-Up Grazing Conference.
Thanks again to our sponsors:
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Friday, January 30, 2015
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Allan Nation, Editor, Stockman Grass Farmer
Ridgeland, Mississippi
The Stockman Grass Farmer is an international
publication which currently is the only monthly
publication in North America devoted solely to
management-intensive grassland farming in all its
aspects. Allan has been the featured speaker at
many grassland based conferences and has authored several books including Grassfed to Finish
Profits With Stocker Cattle. Land, Livestock and
Life, Pasture Profits and his latest book, Moving
Feast; a Cultural History of Heritage Foods in
Southeast Mississippi, Allan received the 1993
Agriculture Conservation Award from the American Farmland Trust for spearheading the drive
behind the grass farming revolution in the United
States.
Neil Dennis, Sunnybrae Farms
Saskatchewan, Canada
Practicing holistic management has changed
Neil’s outlook on life. Prior to practicing holistic
grazing, Neil ran 200-300 head of cattle on his
1,170 acres. Now he has 800-1,000 head on the
same acreage. Neil received much of his early
holistic training from Terry Gompert, a former
Green-Up speaker. In addition to Neil practicing
holistic grazing, he has come up with ways to reduce his workload and improve his farm in terms
of efficiency and ecology. Some of his innovations include a 4 wheeler that drives over fences,
timed latches that spring open to new paddocks
every two hours and color coded tin cans. Neil’s
enthusiasm for grazing and it’s benefits to land,
cattle, people and the pocketbook are contagious.
Tim Joseph, Maple Hill Creamery
Tim Joseph is the founding farmer and owner of
Maple Hill Creamery, a thriving 100% grass-fed
dairy manufacturer based out of Stuyvesant, NY.
Tim Joseph began dairy farming two years after
he and his wife, Laura, bought a farm near Little
Falls, NY in 2002. Tim and Laura quickly realized
that conventional farming wasn’t for them, and
decided to start grazing and transition to organic.
Tim had stopped feeding grain in 2007, and by
2008, began making “value added” products—
including cheese, yogurt, and fluid milk—in a nearby restaurant kitchen, and selling them in a farmstead store. In 2012, the family purchased an existing farmstead and fluid milk facility in Stuyvesant, NY, converted it to yogurt production, and in
2013, stopped milking their cows to focus on growing and marketing the Maple Hill Creamery brand.
Today, Tim’s gamble to focus on 100% grass-fed
dairy has paid off not only in terms of brand
growth, but also for the dozens of farms that have
joined Maple Hill Creamery. Looking forward, Tim
hopes to continue to build a system of dairy farming that is better for cows, the environment, farmers, and consumers.
Thomas Kilcer, Advanced Ag Systems
Kinderhook, NY
After spending 34 years as a Cornell Cooperative
Extension Regional Field Crop and Soils Educator,
Tom started a new career as a private crop consultant. For the past three years, as a private consultant, he has conducted cutting edge research
on forage production and plant nutrition at the Cornell Valatie research farm. As a result of Tom’s
research, best management practices have been
developed for the planting, management, harvesting and storage of Brown Mid-Rib Sorghum Sudan
(BMRSS). Tom is currently looking at triticale as a
crop that can extend the fall and spring pasture
season along with harvesting 8 tons/ac dry matter
in the summer.
Gary Kleppel, SUNY Albany
Gary Kleppel is professor of Biology at the State
University of New York at Albany. His current research is broadly focused on the ecology of human
-dominated landscapes and includes studies of
sustainable agriculture, the coupling of grazerplant-soil microbial communities, and the use of
grazing to achieve conservation objectives. Working with the New York State Department of Envi-
ronmental Conservation, Kleppel and his students
are presently beta-testing a program that will provide young and beginning farmers with access to
State lands for livestock that will be managed in
compliance with conservation grazing protocols
developed in Kleppel’s laboratory.
Dr. Kleppel and his wife operate a diversified,
small farm – Longfield – about 15 miles west of
Albany. Dr. Kleppel’s recently published book,
The Emergent Agriculture- Farming, Sustainability
and the Return of the Local Economy (New Society Publishers), describes the changing paradigm
in food production in the United States and the
effects that this increasingly local and ethical food
system are having on the environment, the economy and society-at-large.
Jim Taylor
Sunny Acres Farm, Athens, NY
Jim Taylor, along with his wife, Debbie, own Sunny Acres Farm in Athens, N.Y. During his two
years at Cornell University in the 70’s, Jim focused his studies on animal science and agronomy. In 1975, Jim and Debbie returned to Athens
and took over operation of the family’s multigenerational farm, where they have now been farming
for over 40 years. During that time, the farm has
transitioned from a cow-calf beef operation to
meat goats. At the same time, the management
of the farm has evolved from the “traditional” management style to a grass-based one. Like most
farms, this farm is a work in progress and has its
share of challenges. Jim is very willing to share
the challenges he has encountered during this
transition to a more sustainable type of farming.
Phyllis and Paul Van Amburgh manage their
100% Grass-fed Dairy and Beef operation with
their five children in Sharon Springs, New York.
The milk from their 65-cow dairy goes to Maple
Hill Creamery, PCO Certified 100% Grass-fed
Dairy products.
Paul, in addition to farming, acts as Milk Supply
Manager for Maple Hill Creamery.