2024 WGCD AG SYMPOSIUM
This is a great opportunity to explore new ideas in the world of agriculture. Speakers include educators, industry professionals, government officials as well as farmers and ranchers like you!
IRRIGATION
GRAZING LAND
CROPS
SOIL
JOIN US FOR THIS EDUCATIONAL
AND INFORMATIONAL EVENT.
December 5th, 2024
7:30 AM – 4:30 PM
ISLAND GROVE / GREELEY, CO
Lunch is included when you RSVP by November 22nd.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
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Jay Young The Young Family have been farming in Greeley County, Kansas since 1906. They have a long history with cattle and raising stockers since the 1940s.Jay lives in Tribune Kansas. Along with his father he is the owner operator of Young Red Angus and Young and Son Farms. Jay started his journey into regenerative agriculture in 2016 when he first learned about Cover Crops from watching a YouTube video on grazing cattle on cover crops.
What started with 15 cows and planting a few cover crops soon turned into a passionate journey of turning his family farm into an operation that was focused on soil health. Jay is a Keynote speaker and a youtuber that spends his time sharing the benefits of regenerative agriculture to as many people as possible. For more information on their cow/calf operation you can check out their website at YoungRedAngus.com. For videos of what they are doing with rotational grazing and Johnson Sue bioreactor search for his videos on YouTube.
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Fernando Falomir Fernando Falomir is a fifth-generation cattle rancher from Chihuahua, Mexico. He studied biogeochemistry at the University of Colorado and began getting involved with holistic management in 2004 when his father took over the family ranch and that is where his real regenerative ranching education began.
After several generations of poor land management, his family’s ranch was essentially a degraded, unproductive piece of land due to years of abuse and overgrazing. All the topsoil had been completely eroded, the water cycle was broken and desertification had completely set in. Ranch productivity had sunk to a historic low of 230 acres to sustain a single Animal Unit.
In 2017, after many years of hard work following regenerative principles, and the utilization of animals as the primary tool for land restoration, the family ranch reached a productivity of 40 acres per animal unit. This was despite several multi-year long droughts and the hardships associated with a low precipitation environment.
Since graduating in 2009, Fernando has learned from world-renown grazers, traveling to countless ranches in diverse environments only to find regenerative grazing principles work everywhere.
He believes the most difficult problem producers face when starting out is implementing the right tools that work best for their situation and adapting their management to be aligned with nature.
Sharing his personal experience and helping other operations succeed has become one of Fernando’s passions and life goals. He has used his knowledge of regenerative principles, stockmanship, water infrastructure and pasture design to help his clients become more profitable and more resilient against uncertainty.
2024 SYMPOSIUM AGENDA
Thursday, December 5th
7:45-8:15 a.m.
Registration Open in Lobby
8:15-9:15 a.m.
Keynote Speaker (Rm. EC A-C) – Jay Young- Are You Ready to Change?