BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6457695:Event:14003 DTSTAMP:20260415T155901Z SUMMARY:Grasstravaganza 2016 DESCRIPTION:Alfred, NY—Alfred State to host Grasstravaganza ’16. A n event for farmers, conservationists, and consumers who are intereste d in soil health, grazing, and sustainable agriculture, will be held o n the Alfred State campus July 4-6. \n The conference Healthy Soils, H ealthy Animals, Healthy Farms, will feature presentations by national and local grazing and soil health experts who will cover a range of to pics, interactive soil health related activities, and a trade show.\n  \nThe featured speaker this year is Dr. Fred Provenza. For more than 38 years, Dr. Provenza has produced groundbreaking research on livesto ck grazing behavior. This work has influenced research in areas from n utrition and foraging behavior of animals and humans, to rural sociolo gy and development.\n \nAdditional speakers include: Justin Morris, N RCS Soil Health Specialist; Dr. Bern Sweeney, Director, President, and Senior Research Scientist at the Stroud Water Research Center, an ind ependent research institution focused on stream and river ecology; and Dr. Guy Jordarski (tentative), a holistic dairy veterinarian with nea rly 30 years of experience in the industry, who now acts as the consul ting veterinarian for the 1600 dairy farms in the Organic Valley milk cooperative.\nFor more information or to register, please visit the co nference web site at www.alfredstate.edu/grasstravaganza or call Karen Meade at 607-587-4714\n\n\nFor more information visit https://silvopa sture.ning.com/events/grasstravaganza-2016 DTSTART:20160804T200000Z DTEND:20160806T200000Z CATEGORIES:conference LOCATION:Alfred, NY WEBSITE:http://www.alfredstate.edu/grasstravaganza URL:http://www.alfredstate.edu/grasstravaganza CONTACT: ORGANIZER:NY NRCS and the NY Grazing Lands Coalition ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg": ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Brett Ch edzoy":https://silvopasture.ning.com/profile/BrettChedzoy END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR