Mississippi Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative

The Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative (GLCI) is a voluntary effort to enhance private grazing lands through the Natural Resources Conservation Service technical assistance.  It is a nationwide partnership.

There is approximately 5.5 million acres of private grazing lands in the United States.  America's private grazing lands represent about 45 percent of the total rural areas of the United States--the largest single land use in the country.  Mississippi has 1 million acres of private grazing lands.

Mississippi GLCI focus:

• Provide training on grazing lands at events
• Implement and install livestock efficiency demonstration on farms showing best management practices in forage and livestock production
• Provide field days and pasture walks
• Provide one-on-one technical assistance
• Work with small farmers on installing cost effective practices

GLCI Activities

South Area GLCI Tour (13KB)

Newsletters

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Forage News for September 2008 (PDF; 120KB)
Forage News for October 2008 (PDF; 228KB)
Forage News for November 2008 (PDF; 135KB)

Scheduled Events

The following document requires Acrobat Reader
Mississippi Pasture and Forage Short Course - August 26 & 27, 2008 (PDF; 357KB)

Other resources

National Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative
Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative Coalition

For more information, please contact

Walter Jackson, State Grazing Land Specialist, at 601-965-4139 ext. 164.

If you encounter any problems with the files provided on this page, please contact Yolanda Jackson at 601-965-4139 ext. 166.

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