Sheep & Grazing School

Sheep & Soil Health School

September 16-17
Nappanee, Indiana
ML Blosser Farm, 25347 County Road 44, Nappanee IN 46550
$400/person

Limited to 40 students. Includes courses, meals and Google Drive resource access, plus invitation to private Facebook group. To book your spot or for questions, email Jeremia Markway or text/call 573-375-5267.

— School Overview —

Learn the art and science of practical, profitable sheep production! This school will pay for itself over and over again both in the short term and for years to come. Let us shorten your learning curve by teaching you how to be successful as well as mistakes we’ve made along our way. Sessions taught in the classroom and field for hands-on learning.

• Low-cost, high-profit sheep production practices and management

  • Breeding, pasture lambing, marketing, health and nutrition

• Grazing management principles, practices and hacks for profitability and soil health

• How to farm or ranch in sync with nature

• How to reduce or eliminate inputs such as fertilizer, hay and feed

• Equipment, infrastructure, fencing and grazing system design

• Livestock guardian dog/stockdog training and management

• Sheep/cattle economics

• Multi-species grazing

• Cover crop grazing

• Much, much more …

Instructors

Ray Archuleta is a certified soil health scientist with more than 30 years of experience in soil conservation, water quality and agronomy conservation with the Natural Resource Conservation Service. After retirement in 2017, Ray founded Understanding Ag LLC and Soil Health Academy to teach biomimicry strategies and principles in improving soil health. Ray owns a 150-acre farm near Seymour, Mo. that he operates along with his wife and family.

Jeremia Markway ranches with his family in central Missouri, where they raise hair sheep, cattle and horses. He managed research farms at Lincoln University in Jefferson City for eight years and has helped numerous farmers and ranchers manage their business as a consultant. With family roots in farming and a love of agriculture from a young age, his interest in managed grazing took off when his parents built the first electric fence in 1983. Since then, it has been a never-ending quest to learn and improve. He enjoys sharing what he has learned from the best in the business, along with his own experiences, to help others become successful.

Hoss Hopping is co-founder of the Hopping Bros. Hair Sheep. Hoss and his brother, Joe, developed their outstanding line of hair sheep to thrive in a low input, grass-based environment. Years of stringent culling produced a no-nonsense, productive and practical line of sheep that are the perfect grazing animal as a stand-alone enterprise or as the perfect compliment to a cattle operation. Hoss is a wealth of knowledge regarding sheep, cattle, grazing and ranching in general. This is a rare opportunity to learn from one of the best minds in the livestock and grazing business.