News Release
November  20, 2007

 

Cody, Powell sessions offer Big Horn Basin pasture recommendations

Pasture management recommendations in the Big Horn Basin’s desert climate will be given in Cody and Powell during two sessions Tuesday, Nov. 27.

Sponsored by the University of Wyoming Cooperative Extension Service (UW CES), the Cody session begins at 10 a.m. in the EOC room of the Park County Courthouse, and the Powell session begins at 6:30 p.m. in the extension meeting room at the Park County Fairgrounds.

Maintaining forage in small pastures presents unique challenges. The one-and-a-half hour presentations by Sandra Frost, UW CES educator for crops in the Big Horn Basin Area, will provide information on grass growth and development in Park County as well as livestock management techniques to enhance pastures.

“A healthy pasture in our desert climate requires planning, wise management and restraint on our part,” said Frost. “Plants cannot get up and walk away from their problems. Each plant’s ability to cope with stress is unique and limited. A healthy pasture results when a landowner is able to take on the plant’s point of view.”

For more information, contact Frost at (307) 754-8836 or at sfrost1@uwyo.edu.

Contact: Steven L. Miller, Senior Editor
Phone: (307) 766-6342
E-mail: slmiller@uwyo.edu
Archived News Site http://uwadmnweb.uwyo.edu/UWAG/news.asp

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