NDMC Works with Nebraska Stakeholders on Ranch Planning

Kearney, Nebraska, August 10, 2009
The National Drought Mitigation Center, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Risk Management
Agency, and the Nebraska Grazing Lands Coalition teamed up on August 10, 2009, in Kearney,
Nebraska, to sponsor a workshop on new drought-related tools:

• Vegetation Drought Response Index (VegDRI)
• Vegetation Outlook (VegOut)
• Drought Planning Guide for Livestock and Forage Producers

The agenda and presentations are online:
http://drought.unl.edu/news/listensession-KearneyNE2009.html

Lynn Myers, who is a VegDRI advisor, and Sherry Vinton, a member of the Nebraska Grazing Lands Coalition, were among those in attendance at the August 10 workshop in Kearney, Nebraska.		Brian Wardlow, the NDMC researcher who is leading the development of the VegDRI tool, gave an overview of the NDMC. Marcy Hunter, right, is the coordinator of the Nebraska Grazing Lands Coalition.
Lincoln, Nebraska, September 29-30, 2009 The NDMC and collaborators gathered with ranchers on September 29 and 30 in Lincoln, Nebraska, to fine-tune Reducing Risk on the Ranch: Drought Planning Guide for Livestock Producers, a tool being developed with sponsorship from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Risk Management Agency.
In a World Cafe activity discussing best management practices are, from left to right, Tonya Haigh, NDMC, Ted Alexander, Kansas rancher, Matt Stockton, UNL Economist, Jerry Volesky, UNL Extension Educator, Gale Dunn, Colorado USDA, and Stan Boltz, Natural Resource Conservation Service, South Dakota.		Jim Faulstitch, a South Dakota rancher, and Homer Buell, a Nebraska rancher, post items about critical dates in ranching onto the sticky wall.

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