Healthy Grass Equals Profitable Ranches

Keeping Grazing Lands Sustainable and Profitable through Farm Bill-funded Conservation Practices

Trouble viewing this email? View it as a webpage. Healthy Grass Equals Profitable Ranches Water can make or break a ranch in America's dry western states. This is especially true for families like the Blairs who graze livestock on rangelands in South Dakota. To secure that water, the Blairs started working with the USDA's Soil Conservation Service (SCS), now the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), in the 1960s. The family has used Farm Bill funding to put conservation practices in place to maximize grass production, including cross-fencing, livestock watering systems, shelterbelts and fabricated windbreaks, riparian fencing, and multi-species cover crops. Read more about the Blairs.

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