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 Mississippi’s 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.
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