Cheney Lake Watershed is kicking off our Winter Workshop Series with Logan Pribbeno. Logan is President of Wine Glass Ranch, a 30,000-acre ranch of crop and rangeland near Imperial Nebraska, that combines conservation and profitability. To combine these goals, Wine Glass Ranch utilizes a low input operation where cows have access to all the forage they need and are expected to thrive and calve regularly without bale beds, feed trucks, or calving barns.

As a part of the system, Logan utilizes cover crops in crop rotations, grazing the excess biomass, giving native grasslands needed rest throughout the year. This keeps grasses thriving and gives the ranch excess forage eliminating the need to bale feed, even in tough years. As an added soil health benefit, grazing cover and stover allows nutrients in the plant to be broken down quickly and returned for use in the next crop.

Logan describes himself as a ‘second-generation conservationist’ having grown up with no-till and rotational grazing. On top new grazing strategies and cover cropping, the ranch has also done a substantial amount of wetland restoration and returning erodible acres back to grass through CRP. In recognition of their work, Wine Glass Ranch received the Leopold Conservation Award in 2022.

This event is scheduled for Thursday, January 16th at Pleasantview Activity Center, 5013 S. Dean Rd, Hutchinson 67501. Lunch at Noon, Speaker at 12:30pm