Tallgrass Range School

Register for the Tallgrass Range School! Learn more about rangeland management in a friendly setting with other ranchers, land managers, range management students and natural resource professionals. 

The Tallgrass Range School is scheduled for August 16-18 at Camp Wood YMCA near Elmdale, KS.

The theme this year is “Climate, Cattle, and Cores: Reducing Grassland Vulnerability”. There will be rancher and expert panels that will talk about how to make your rangeland the best it can be so you can plan long-term for your ranch’s native grasslands to be your greatest ranching asset.

Besides learning plant identification, figuring stocking rates, monitoring vegetation response, estimating forage allocation and the rest of basics needed to manage your rangeland, there will be ranchers and natural resource professionals from NRCS and other organizations talking with you about how to plan long term for whatever nature or market forces bring to your ranching enterprise and how to respond to keep your rangeland health high and your livestock productive. 

For this 2 ½ day school, the cost is $350 per student which covers room, board and tuition. Scholarships of $175 are available for most ranchers and eligible college students while scholarships of $125 are available for most natural resource agency personnel.

We will have the final course agendas up on our website by July 1st at the latest!

If you have questions or are interested in receiving a scholarship, please contact Barth Crouch at barth.crouch@gmail.com or 785-452-0780. 

Please register before July 22nd.

Also consider attending the Mixed Grass Range School or Shortgrass Range School!

Download Tallgrass Range School Agenda