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Does anyone know why the Kansas smoke model is "down for an extended period," and if and when it will be available? https://ksfire.sonomatechdata.com/view/summary/

Upcoming workshop on our farm north of Winfield, KS. Please join us!

Guardian Dogs, Small Ruminants, and Profitability: A Holistic Perspective - Holistic Management International Two-Day WorkshopOctober 5-6, 2023Graze the Prairie13368 121st Rd, Winfield, Kansas 67156 $300/person or $400/couple (use code GDOG2)Partial scholarships are available.Registration deadline: October 1Scholarship deadline: September 24 One of the biggest challenges to livestock farming or ranching is....

Folks: I sent this out a couple weeks ago, but this is just a reminder. The Davis family of Madison, KS has invited us to their ranch for a day of learning and fun.

The Davis Ranch tour will be Thursday, June 15, 2023, starting at noon at Andrew and Ashley Davis' place. The address is: 1373 340th Road, Madison, KS. Don't trust your GPS on this one. There's a better way. From Highway 99, go west about six miles on Road 350, the first road south of Madison High School, to Road R or River Road, then south on Road R one mile to Road 340 and back west 1 1/8 mile to Andrew and Ashley's farmstead on the north side of the road.

The Davis family has been doing some excellent range and livestock management that they want to show us. A short list includes late summer burns for sericea control, use of patch burning and rotation grazing, limited access water sites in ponds, extensive invasive tree removal with burning, management of go-back land, in-pasture no stress weaning, plus a lot more.

I think you will want to come a little early and tour the dual-purpose work and party barn that Andrew and friends moved piece by piece several miles and reconstructed on site. It is REALLY nice. You will want to do a tour. We will meet in and around the barn. Please bring a lawn chair too as we may gather outside under the shade trees.

During the Lunch & Learn Andrew will tell us about the history of their family and the ranch then explain their grassland and livestock management program. We will then take a driving tour with several stops and ending at their innovative cattle working facility. Their veterinarian says it's the most efficient cow/calf working facility he knows of.

Lunch is provided and sponsored by Frontier Farm Credit. As always, I will need a count for the caterer. Please RSVP to me via phone call, text or email.

Oh, an additional reason to attend will be the lunch. Owen Reed will be catering the meal. (Just that right there may be enough to get some of you to attend. :)) The buffet style menu is BBQ Prime brisket, cheesy potatoes, coleslaw and chocolate sheet cake. Please RSVP so Owen will know how much to prepare.

See you in a couple weeks!

Roger

Roger Wells
868 Road 290
Americus, KS 66835
620-340-5808
[email protected]

Folks, we've made a change in the start time of the TLA meeting in Emporia on Thursday, February 24. 2022.
If you start showing up at about 11:30 a.m. we'll have lunch at noon (meal provided) and start the meeting at noon.
We will be at the Anderson Building on the Lyon County Fairgrounds, West 50 Highway in Emporia.
The day's program will be fun and educational and presented by four members of our TLA Young Ranchers group.
Jacquelyne Leffler will present the Lunch & Learn program with a PowerPoint presentation on her ag tour of the Baltic States in Europe last summer. She was a member of the Casten Fellows: Advanced Leadership Class with Kansas Farm Bureau. They visited Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Finland. Jacquelyne will be showing the farms and other sites they toured.
We will then have Joe Cox, Matthew Ellis and Derek Jackson giving a woodshop and very condensed version of the week long Ranching For Profit school they attended in Dallas, TX last fall. Theirs will be a tag team PowerPoint presentation on several topics of interest to ranchers.
Their presentation will include discussions on: Getting Started, Economic Theory, People Management, Applied Economics, Finance, Ecological Indicators & Range Influences, Cell Grazing Principals, Cell Grazing Planning & Application.
There is no charge to attend and everybody with an interest in the Flint Hills, rangelands and livestock management are invited to attend.
In order to assure we have a meal for you PLEASE RSVP to:
Roger Wells via email, text or call to 620-340-5808, [email protected].
We need your RSVP by no later than Friday, February 18.

See you in Emporia.

TLA friends: Join us on Thursday, February 24, 2022 at the Anderson Building on the Lyon County Fairgrounds, West 50 Highway in Emporia for the next TLA event.
We will begin at 10:00 a.m. Yes, this is different than any previous TLA events, but this one is special.
In 2021, TLA sponsored four from our Young Ranchers group to attend continuing education events. These four young ranchers will present the day's program.
Joe Cox, Matthew Ellis and Derek Jackson attended the week-long Ranching For Profit school in Dallas, TX. They will present a much-condensed version of what they learned at school. They will begin in the morning and continue into the afternoon.
Jacquelyne Leffler participated in a group agricultural tour of the Baltic States in Europe and will be our Lunch & Learn speaker with a PowerPoint presentation.
A catered BBQ brisket & fixings lunch will be provided BUT you MUST RSVP to me before Friday, February 18 to guarantee a meal.
There may be a small fee at the door for the meal.
Please let me know you are coming via text, email or call to:
Roger Wells, 620-340-5808, [email protected].
See you in February!

Oh, if you are not currently on our email list to receive TLA event notices via email, just give me your email address and I'll put you on the private list. Thanks!