STEPS 2010 Working Calendar
HMI Texas 2010 working calendar for the STEPS
Program
Sustainability Training Equips Producers for Success
*date and/or location still in pencil
January 18-20 – Annual Board Retreat with Ron Chapman – South
Central (Johnson City)
*February - Drought Mitigation Lands on Learning event (field day and
class)– Valley (Laredo)
March 5-6 – Wealth of Wildlife -23rd Annual Spring Conference,
featuring Gregg Simonds – South Central (New Braunfels)
March 22 – TSCRA School for Successful Ranching with Richard
Teague – North (Ft. Worth) with TSCRA annual Meeting
March 26-26 – HM class and Images for Conservation
Fund’s
Ranch Photography symposium – Valley (Laredo)
*April –Drought Mitigation Lands on Learning event (field day
and class) - Gulf Coast (Wharton)
April 13-14- 21st Annual Southern Plains Conference-
Panhandle/West Texas (Lubbock)
April 15 – Land Stewardship class with Richard Teague - Panhandle/West
Texas (Nazareth)
April 21-25 – Planned Grazing -featuring Kirk Gadzia – North
(Ft. Worth)
*May - Mob Grazing with Ian Mitchell-Innes – South Central or
Valley
*May - Graduate Seminar & Consulting Field Day with Ian Mitchell-Innes – Gulf
Coast (Brookwood Community, Katy)
*June 8-12- Mob Grazing Workshop featuring Greg Judy or Ian Mitchell-Innes.
Land Stewardship with Richard Teague and Soils
Class with Pat Richardson
+ Field Day at Bob Sanders' place Partnering with American Grassfed
Alliance and Animal Welfare Association. North (Jefferson)
June - Drought Mitigation Lands on Learning event (field day and class)
- Valley (Corpus Christi)
June 30- July 1- HM class featuring Kirk Gadzia & Kelly Boney,
plus field day – Panhandle/West Texas (Nazareth)
August 14 – Drought Mitigation Lands on Learning event (field
day and class at Melissa Cole's place – South Central (Bastrop)
September 14 – Entrepreneurship, Diversification, and Marketing
Strategies with Darryl Birkenfeld - Panhandle/West Texas (Nazareth)
*September-Lands on Learning event (field day and class) South Central
(Murcheson)
October 11-14 - Fall Grazing Conference Dixon's Marfa Ranch Panhandle/West
Texas (Marfa)
*November 3-5- Long Range Planning for 2011
*December- Lands on Learning event (field day and class) - Valley (Brownsville/McAllen
area)