‘Pasture to Woodland’ event is Sept. 18 in Gravois Mills.
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Silvopasture, the practice of integrating trees, forage and grazing animals, will be a topic of MU Extension’s Diversified Grazing Systems Field Day, Sept. 8 in Morgan County. Photo by Mallory Daily, MU Center for Agroforestry.
GRAVOIS MILLS, Mo. – University of Missouri Extension specialists and producers will talk about diversifying grazing systems, silvopasture, native forages and using regenerative practices at a Diversified Grazing Systems Field Day.
The event is 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, Sept. 18, at Land of the Osages Research Farm near Gravois Mills.
Panelists include Margaret Chamas, who operates a flock of dairy goats for grazing pastures at Storm Dancer Farm in Smithville; Kaitlyn Dozer, part of the MU Center for Regenerative Agriculture and a leading expert on grazing collars for livestock; producer Harry Cope of Cope Grass Farm, a fifth-generation diversified farm dedicated to sustainable and regenerative grazing. Cope, a Leopold Conservation Award winner, will walk attendees through the process of going from pasture to timber.
During a wagon tour, attendees will hear from Gina Beebe of the MU Center for Agroforestry, who will talk about warm- and cool-season grass pastures. MU Extension state forage and grazing specialist Harley Naumann will discuss grasses that promote healthy, diversified grazing systems. Elizabeth Hamilton of Hamilton Native Seeds will talk about the benefits of native plants in grass pastures.
Beebe and Olga Romanova, also with the Center for Agroforestry, will talk about ways silvopasture designs can be used to improve grazing systems.
The event ends with lunch and an exhibitor fair.
Register at CenterforAgroforestry.org/2026grazing.
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Silvopasture, the practice of integrating trees, forage and grazing animals, will be a topic of MU Extension’s Diversified Grazing Systems Field Day, Sept. 8 in Morgan County. Photo by Mallory Daily, MU Center for Agroforestry.
