Karen Hoffman Sullivan

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Karen Hoffman Sullivan Resource Conservationist
Animal Science USDA-NRCS, Norwich, NY
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Steering Committee

• Comprised of farmers and Extension Educators
• Goal all parts of state, all livestock types
  represented
• Farmer is Chairman
• Dick Warner, Troy Bishopp
• elected by committee
• Ad hoc committee structure
• Not incorporated as 501(c)3
• Meets 2X/year in person, 2 teleconferences/year
• Communicate by email

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Budget

• Key component of the plan
• Over time, more defined
• Brainstorming sessions
• NYS has three main line items
• Enhanced Technical Assistance Capacity
• Education
• Strategic Alliances and Marketing

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Enhanced Technical Assistance Capability

• Includes current NRCS staff costs
• Includes contract with SWCD for .65 FTE
• Includes contracts with 3 RCD Councils and 1
  not-for-profit (Adirondack North Country
  Association)
• Modeled after early TSP concept
• 2 have matching grant funds to support grazing
  techs

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Staff

• 3 NRCS
• Darrell Emmick, State Grassland Specialist
• Karen Hoffman Sullivan RC/Animal Scientist
• Don Wild Area 1 Grazing Specialist
• 1 SWCD
• Rob DeClue Infrastructure Specialist
• 4 CONTRACTED
• 2 RCD Councils 3 grazing technicians
• 1 RCD Council promotion/education/plans
• 1 NFP Adirondack North Country Association
  (ANCA) 1 grazing technician

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ANCA


Area 1 - Wild
Hudson Mohawk RCD
Finger Lakes RCD
Seneca Trail RCD
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20-25 grazing plans, 7 workshops/ pasture walks


Bonus results
3 grazing plans, 8 workshops/pasture walks
15 grazing plans, 8 workshops/ pasture walks
10 grazing plans, 5 workshops/ pasture walks
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Education

• GLCI-sponsored workshops and events
• GLCI Grazette monthly e-newsletter
• Printed materials
• Prescribed Grazing and Feeding Management books
• Brochures, booklets, other resources
• Technical materials
• PEDs, infrastructure components, etc.

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Education cont.

• Requests Lets partner!
• Cooperative Extension, RCD Councils, etc.
• New - NOFA-NY, organic milk coops, consumer and
  health groups
• Grazing workshops, pasture walks, etc.
• Research projects
• Heifer health on pasture
• Precision feeding for grazing farms NYC
  Watershed

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Resources Developed

• Prescribed Grazing and Feeding Management for
  Lactating Dairy Cows K. H. Sullivan, R. J.
  DeClue, and D. L. Emmick
• Pasture Estimating Device (PED)
• Accounts for pasture density
• PGM Worksheets
• Floodplain Fence Prototype
• Horse Pasture Management video/DVD

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Strategic Alliances and Marketing

• Steering Committee Advocates
• Advocates for grassland agriculture
• Farmers, consumers, Cornell, other agricultural
  organizations, media, etc.
• PROMOTES THE INTERESTS OF GLCI IN NY WHEREVER AND
  WHENEVER POSSIBLE!
• Promotional items purchased in first few years
• Hats, magnetic vehicle signs, Graziers
  Gathering pasture walk signs, farm signs, etc

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NYS GLCI

• Promoting Clean, Green, and Profitable
  Agriculture
• .working to develop and sustain productive
  grazing lands in harmony with the environment