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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