Tuesday, March 4, 2025
2 PM CT
Speaker: Margaret Chamas
Topic: Goat Landscapers and Targeted Grazing
What combines outreach, conservation, and profit with goats? Targeted grazing, also known as goat landscaping! Learn about the opportunities, joys, and perils of using goats for vegetation management. You’ll discover what’s needed for necessary education, skills, equipment, and livestock; the start-up costs and revenue potential; and lessons learned from nearly 7 years in targeted grazing.
About Your Speaker
Margaret Chamas
After a solid 4-H dairy goat career, Margaret pursued animal science degrees at Cornell University and Iowa State, focusing on ruminant nutrition and grazing research. She runs Storm Dancer Farm in Smithville MO, raising dairy goats for show, crossbred meat goats and hair sheep for targeted grazing, and miscellaneous equines and poultry. She also consults for Goats On The Go after managing three territories in the Kansas City region for several years; and serves as the Livestock Viability Manager for Practical Farmers of Iowa.
