• RSVP to Stockman Grass Farmer, 800-748-9808

Note to LSP members: When you sign up for this grazing school, mention that you are a member of the Land Stewardship Project to qualify for a $100 discount.

Pastured pigs make an ideal complementary enterprise to beef cattle; dairy; cheese manufacturing; peanut; potato and vegetable farming; hardwood timber production and fruit orcharding. Joel Salatin figures his pastured pigs produce a profit of $500 an acre for land too poor for cattle. Thanks to their omnivorous diet almost everything is feed for a pastured pig and the initial capital costs are very low. Unlike beef cattle, pig fat flavors fast so you can literally have a pork flavor of the month!

At this Stockman Grass Farmer school, here are just a few things you will learn:

• How to retrofit a pasture for pig grazing with electric fencing
• Low labor pig raising with every-third-day feeding
• Why pigs should be rotated through pastures
• Soil fertility buildup with pastured pigs
• An organic approach to swine parasitism and health
• Advantags and disadvantages of mixing pigs with cattle in the same paddock
• Buying versus producing your own feeder pigs
• Manufacturing your own feed versus buying it
• Legumes as a replacement for expensive soybean meal
• Feeder pig production as an enterprise
• Breeds that work and those that don’t
• Dry versus wet pig wallows
• Advantages and disadvatages of seasonal production
• How to pen and load pastured pigs easily
• Various pork cuts and what to charge for them
• Selling to restaurants at a profit
• Specialty hams and bacon
• Spanish-style acorn-finished pork