Beef resiliency - scenario planning.pdf

Resiliency to weather extremes is, on the one hand, a topic with which farmers and ranchers in the Northern Plains are already familiar, because of the typical wide range in temperature and moisture conditions in the region. But now, climate change is adding new uncertainties that make it difficult to know what are the best practices for the future. In an ongoing project, the UNL Extension team used scenario planning with beef system stakeholders to discover robust adaptive management options, prioritize Extension programming needs, and provide an open forum for discussion.