Keeping the Family Ranch in the Family will keynote Ranchers’ Forum

The Society for Range Management has made special provisions this year to offer its annual Ranchers’ Forum nationally by webinar, announced forum coordinator Tom Platt of Washington State University Extension in Davenport.

The Ranchers’ Forum is scheduled for Jan. 31, 2012, as part of SRM’s annual meeting in Spokane. The forum will focus on three topics: ranch succession, crooked calf syndrome and sage grouse.

The keynote presentation, “Keeping the Family Ranch in the Family,” will be made by Dr. Ron Hanson of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Hanson is sought by farm groups throughout rura...