Tennessee Forage & Grassland Council Annual Meeting
November 6 @ 8:00 am - 1:30 pm
prefixA morning focused on forage management
The Tennessee Forage & Grassland Council will hold its annual meeting Nov. 6, 2026, at the Clyde M. York 4-H Center in Crossville, Tennessee. Registration costs $50. The published meeting program runs from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Central, with registration, coffee and doughnuts at the start. Farmers traveling from the Eastern time zone should account for the difference: the meeting begins at 9 a.m. Eastern. The center is at 62 4-H Center Drive, Crossville, TN 38572.
Pasture challenges and producer experience
The agenda covers bale grazing, foxtail management in pastures, recovery from Hurricane Helene flooding and Johnsongrass management. A forage producer panel adds an opportunity to hear from farmers, while a trade show gives participants time to make contacts between sessions. Lunch and an NRCS update appear near the end of the program. Together, those topics bring pasture management decisions into one morning. Farmers can prepare by identifying the forage issue that most affects their operation and considering how it connects to grazing schedules, winter feeding or recovery work. A brief set of farm observations will be more useful than a long list of general questions. These preparation ideas are optional and do not add topics to the published agenda.
Plan the visit
Before registering, review the official meeting information and the ticket page for current arrangements. Contact Malerie Fancher at 865-974-7324 or mfanche4@utk.edu with questions. If you need to discuss a particular pasture weed, ask whether photographs or written observations would be useful for a conversation during breaks. Consider which points you want to take home from the producer panel and how you will record them. A practical follow-up plan might include reviewing one management option with your Extension contact after the meeting. Allow time to arrive for registration rather than planning around the first presentation alone. The local schedule uses Central time throughout; preserve that time zone when adding the meeting to your own calendar or arranging travel with another attendee.
