A24-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 19,2001 New York Grass-Based Livestock Management And Marketing Seminar To Be Conducted June 2-3 WARNERVILLE, N.Y. Jim and Adele Hayes will conduct a seminar on developing and man aging a profitable grass-based livestock enterprise. This full weekend seminar will be held on Sat. and Sun., June 2-3, at Sap Bush Hollow Farm in Warner ville, N.Y., near Cobleskill, one hour west of Albany. Jim and Adele Hayes are co owners of Sap Bush Hollow Farm, a diversified sustainable farm where they have practiced intensive rotational grazing since 1979. Their livestock enterprise consists of approximately 100-125 ewes, a 170 percent pas ture lamb crop, IS feeder steers, an order-based pastured poultry operation, 125 pastured laying hens, 140 pastured turkeys, 70 geese, and 30 pigs. They market their pasture-raised beef, lamb, pork, and poultry from their porch. The Hayes’ have designed the seminar to cover essential live stock farming topics through practical and applied lessons on their farm. Sap Bush Hollow Farm, although successful today, has struggled and still struggles today through many chapters of tough development challenges, with many mistakes and false starts. Jim and Adele openly share their success and failures with good humor and 20-20 hindsight. Jim Hayes is a recently retired professor of animal science at Syracuse University of New York, Cobleskill. He is an enter taining and thought-provoking speaker at regional grazing, live stock, and poultry conferences. Adele Hayes has 23 years ex perience working in rural devel opment for Schoharie County. After she retired six years ago in a determined effort to make the farm profitable, her business and sales ability has changed the color of their enterprise from “in the red” to “in the black.” She is a popular conference speaker on poultry production and on her methods of direct marketing. This is the Hayes’ third annual “Greener Pastures” seminar. The seminar is for full and part-time farmers involved with livestock, as well as those starting an oper ation. People interest in transi tioning to grass-based livestock farming or sustainable agricul ture are encouraged to enroll. Newcomers to agriculture are al ways welcome. Building Profit through Greener Pastures is limited to 20 people, so advance registration is required. Some scholarship as sistance is available, and over night accommodations in private homes is possible. Please contact Hotter Honored As Outstanding Dairy Alumnus UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre Co.) 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