Tri-State Ranch Management Practicum Beginning Rancher Education and Development Program

"This program for beginning ranchers combines traditional classroom based education with hands-on applied learning in an outdoor classroom and a mentorship program with successful, established ranchers.  The project involves creation of four Ranch Management Practicum courses, each lasting 8 days over an 8 month period and covering holistic, system-based ranch management concepts including production, ecology, economics and labor.  Partnerships with non-government organizations (NGO) in each state will develop and implement a rancher mentorship program providing training to willing mentors, matching them with beginning ranchers and providing a framework for the mentorship program."