Quality Pasture: How to Create It, Manage It & Profit From It, 2nd Edition

About Allan Nation

Allan Nation served as the editor of The Stockman Grass Farmer magazine from 1977 until his death in November 2016. Begun in 1947 it was Mississippis oldest farm publication. Based in Ridgeland Mississippi The Stockman Grass Farmer is an international publication that covers management-intensive grassland enterprises for producers of pasture-raised livestock. This includes stocker cattle grass finished beef and lamb and pasture-based dairying. It is the only monthly publication in North America devoted solely to management-intensive grassland farming in all its aspects. The son of a commercial cattle rancher Nation grew up in Greenville Mississippi. He traveled to some 30 countries around the world studying and photographing grassland farming systems. In 1987 he authored a section on Management-intensive Grazing in the USDA Yearbook of Agriculture and served as a consultant and resource for Audubon Society Television Specials National Geographic WTBS PBS and National Public Radio. He received the 1993 Agricultural Conservation Award from the American Farmland Trust for spearheading the drive behind the grass farming revolution in the United States. Nation was a featured speaker at ranching and grasslands conference and authored 11 books on pasture-based livestock and artisan meats and milk products. Jim Gerrish grew up on a grain and alfalfa hay farm in south-central Illinois. He spent over 22 years conducting beef-forage systems research and outreach while on the faculty of the University of Missouri. With over 20 years of commercial cattle and sheep production on his family farm in northern Missouri he also has one foot solidly planted in commercial livestock production. His research at the University of Missouri-Forage Systems Research Center encompassed many aspects of plant-soil-animal interactions and provided the foundation for many of the basic principles of Management-intensive Grazing. Today with his wife Dawn he contract grazes a commercial cow-calf operation on 260 irrigated acres in Idaho. He has received awards from the American Forage and Grassland Council Missouri Forage and Grassland Council National Center for Appropriate Technology USDA-NRCS the Soil and Water Conservation Society and others. He is also an independent grazing lands consultant providing service to farmers and ranchers on both private and public lands across the USA and internationally.