Helping Farmers Succeed
I am passionate about helping farmers find ways to be financially viable while carefully stewarding land and livestock. My goal is to create more successful grass-based livestock farms and empower farmers to create positive change for pastures, soils, livestock, farm finances and farmers quality of life.
Sarah’s Experience
I am an agronomist and farm business planning consultant with over 30 years of experience. I teach workshops, work with farmers on agronomic and business planning, write books, articles and other publications on grass-based livestock farming systems.
Services include Consulting, Writing and Workshops:
- Combining cash flow projections, agronomy and animal husbandry to support farm decisions to improve financial health, labor efficiency, and quality of life.
- Improving pasture & forage productivity and quality
- Assessing and building soil health
- Integrating diverse perennials and annuals into forage production
- Improving livestock performance and well-being
- Business planning and enterprise analysis
- Workshops on grazing and soil health.
Credentials:
After returning to the US from living in New Zealand with my family, I grew up on a family farm in Vermont, where we used mob stocking (high stock density ) and intensive grazing to improve the productivity and the ecological health of the land and livestock. In University I studied ecology, farm business management, and agronomy, and did research on dairy grazing systems in graduate school. I then worked on conventional and organic dairy, sheep, beef and vegetable farms.
Over several decades of consulting, writing books, and teaching workshops, I have had the privilege to work with hundreds of farms, and speak with thousands of farmers at conferences. I have experience working with many types of farmers, including organic, conventional, 100% grass-fed, and farms using grain with high forage diets. Some of these farms use technology such as virtual fencing and robotic milking systems, while other farms, such as those in the plain community, don’t use electricity.
Contact
sarahflackconsulting at gmail dot com
