Completed Project Report


Hopi Reservation Low-Stress Livestock Management and Ranching Safety

  • Award Amount: $11,456
  • Regional Center: Western Extension Risk Management Education Center
  • Grant Program: 2012 Competitive Grant Program
  • Project Director: Trent Teegerstrom
  • Email: tteegers@arizona.edu
  • Organization: University of Arizona Ag and Resource Economics

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Project Overview

The Hopi Low Stress Livestock Handling and Ranch Safety program addressed the Risk Management areas of health, stress and well-being and transition to new productions systems. Hands-on workshops where educate producers on how to handle livestock in a low stress manner both on the open range and in corrals. The Hopi livestock producers where the primary audience and some ranchers from the Navajo communities attended. The Hopi Reservation is located in northeastern Arizona. One two-day workshop was produced to cover the topics.

The risk management results included improved producer knowledge in working with livestock using low stress methods and having proper facilities that are maintained in safe working order. Proper use of equipment, maintenance of the equipment and knowing when to replace it and forty-seven individual attended one or both days of the program. Thirty-eight attended the first day and thirty-one attended the second day.

Number of Participants: 70

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