Sheep & Grazing School

April 26-27
Zachary, Louisiana
Dairy House Farms
7149 Gene Brian Ln, Ethel LA 70730

Sessions taught in the classroom and field for hands-on learning.
Friday, April 26: 8am-5pm (with light breakfast and lunch). Saturday, April 27: 8am-5pm (with light breakfast and lunch). Instructors are Jeremia Markway and Hoss Hopping.

Fee $400/person
Includes courses, meals and Google Drive resource access, plus invitation to private Facebook group. To book your spot or for more information, email Jeremia Markway or text/call 573-375-5267.

Hotel Options
Comfort Inn & Suites | Holiday Inn Express Baton Rouge North | Best Western St. Francisville Hotel

— 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 …

May 29-31
Eugene, Missouri
13126 Mt Carmel Rd, Eugene MO 65032

Sessions taught in the classroom and field for hands-on learning.
Fee $400/person
Includes breakfast and lunch each day as well as one dinner.
Includes courses, meals and Google Drive resource access, plus invitation to private Facebook group. To book your spot or for more information, call/text Claire Markway at 573-434-9443. Instructors are Ray Archuletta, Jeremia Markway and Hoss Hopping.

Hotel Options
Super 8, Eldon | Eldon Inn, Eldon | Best Western, Jefferson City

— School Overview —

• Practical applications of improving soil health and building a resilient system

• Understanding the water and nutrient cycle and how they are the keys to wealth

• The 2 most important things to profit when raising livestock & how to achieve each

• Grazing practices and tips for year round grazing, regeneration, and profitability

• How to farm/ranch in sync with nature using ecological principles

• Marketing, lambing, weaning and breeding season management

• Infrastructure, fencing, nutrition, and grazing system design

• Guardian dog and stock dog use and management

• Producing adapted animals that fit your grazing system

• Consistently make money with sheep and cattle

• Many more tips, tricks, and observations from years of ranching

— Additional Dates —

June 21-22 — Lexington, Kentucky

Details about each school/location will be added when available. Ask about hosting a school in your area! To reserve your spot, or for more information, email Jeremia Markway or text/call 573-375-5267.

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.