We have an amazing extension network going on across our country relative to grassland management and a lot of it is producers talking to producers. Research is really important, but getting application and producers sharing knowledge are really important. Grazing mentorship programs, verified beef production plus, which looks at environment and production practices, all those types of things, are the really important part in terms of trying to move things forward. Those are the ways we can encourage change—through cost-sharing and those types of incentives—and really allow producers to take leadership. As we talk east-west differentials, even commodity differentials mean that the incentives for one are not necessarily the same for another.
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