Passionate About Helping Farmers
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 and have been working with farmers since the early 1990s. I consult, teach workshops and write books on grass-based livestock farming
systems.
Services offered:
- Combining cash flow projections with agronomy and animal husbandry to help farmers make decisions on how to best improve farm financial health, labor efficiency, and quality of life.
- Improving pasture productivity and quality
- Assessing and building soil health
- Integrating diverse perennials and annuals into forage production
- Increasing forage yield and quality
- Improving livestock performance and well-being
- Monitoring and assessing soil and plant health
- Business planning and enterprise analysis
Credentials:
After returning from several years in New Zealand, I grew up on a family farm in Vermont, where we used high stock density management 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 farms, and on 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@gmail.com