This year the SD Grasslands Coalition will have Gabe Brown, Bismarck, North Dakota a the featured speaker for the 2014 Winter Road Show and Annual meeting.

Brown is one of the pioneers of the current soil health movement which focuses on regenerating our resources.

Gabe, along with his wife Shelly, and son Paul, own and operate a diversified 5,000 acre farm and ranch near Bismarck, North Dakota. Their ranch focuses on farming and ranching in nature's image.

The Browns holistically integrate their grazing and no-till cropping system, which includes a wide variety of cash crops along with multi-species cover crops along with all natural grass fed beef, poultry and sheep. This diversity and integration has regenerated the natural resources on the ranch without the use of synthetic fertilizers, pesticides and fungicides.

Over 2,000 people visit the Brown's Ranch annually to see this unique operation for themselves. They have had visitors from all 50 states and 16 foreign countries

Wednesday, Dec. 10, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Sinte Gleska University ~ Mission, SD Contact: Judge Jessop – SD Grassland Coalition (605) 280-0127 or judge.jessop@sdconservation.net

Thursday, Dec. 11, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Jo Deans ~ Yankton, SD Contact: Les Labahn – Randall RC&D Association, Inc. (605) 487-7035 or leslie@cme.coop Or Sue Schultz, randallrcd@cme.coop

Friday, Dec. 12, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. AmericInn ~ Chamberlain, SD Contact: Judge Jessop – SD Grassland Coalition (605) 280-0127 or judge.jessop@sdconservation.net

The SD Grasslands Coalition will have their annual meeting Friday during lunch. Please RSVP by Friday December 5 so we can have a meal for you!

–SD Grasslands Coalition