Upcoming speaking engagements and Bio

Upcoming Speaking Engagements: 

January 12 2012  Catskill Regional Dairy Livestock and Grazing Conference at SUNY Delhi   "Dairy Heifer custom grazing and extended grazing strategies"

January 20th 2012  NOFA-NY Conference  "Demystifying a grazing season’s worth of management tools"

January 21st 2012 16th Annual Vermont Grazing & Livestock Conference "presenting on biological monitoring"

March 16th, 2012   Water Quality Symposium  Auburn, NY   "Teaching horse owners about land stewardship while building better relationships"

March 22 2012   "The Nature of Grazing" Northwest PA Grazing Conference  Clarion, PA  "Purposeful Grazing – Managing with Intensions  &  Gauging the Results – Are You Meeting Your Goals? 

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                                      Troy Bishopp, aka "The Grass Whisperer"

                                                 (315)  841-3336 

This “Jack of all trades” guy is an accomplished professional grazier, grasslands advocate and fencebuilder of 25 years who owns and manages Bishopp Family Farm in Deansboro, New York with his very understanding wife of 25 years, daughters and parents.  The 5^th generation, 132 year old farmstead is home to a custom grazing operation that finishes beef and backgrounds feeder cattle and dairy heifers on 180 acres of owned and leased organic native pastures. It's also home to an emerging cow-calf operation and sells grass-finished, sun-infused hamburger and sides of beef. The “Sunshine in every Bite” beef that was grazed on these divine pastures have been served at President Obama’s inaugural dinners, white table cloth restaurants, in Japan, at grazing conferences and to the local community. 

Because these 150 head of grazing employees don’t need a lot of supervision, he is also employed full-time by the Madison County Soil and Water Conservation District and the Upper Susquehanna Coalition, as their regional grazing specialist, media dude, fence installer, farmer mentor, intern parent, grant writer and event planner.

He is the project leader for the Central NY RC&D Council and NESARE on a professional development project entitled: Utilizing Holistic Planned Grazing as a Regenerative Engine for Sustainable Agriculture which trains northeast conservation professionals to plan and implement grazing systems on farms.