Jim Gerrish through his American Grazing Lands Services, LLC, has consulted worldwide on both irrigated pastures and native rangeland as well as for livestock producers in high natural rainfall environments. Prior to moving to Idaho where he manages a ranch unit consisting of 450 center pivot irrigated pastures, he spent over 22 years as a researcher of beef-forage systems on the faculty of the University of Missouri. He also turned a marginal crop farm into his own highly productive 260-acre commercial cow-calf, sheep and contract grazing operation.