During two working days held in Balcarce, Argentina, a training workshop was conducted for facilitators who will begin working alongside livestock producers in monitoring and managing forage stock on commercial farms. The activity was jointly organized by the FONTAGRO projects Satellite monitoring of quantity and quality of available biomass in pastoral livestock systems and New Horizons in AgTech: Scaling innovation in pastoral systems in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Five facilitators from the provinces of Santa Fe, Entre Ríos, and Buenos Aires participated in the workshop, together with a livestock producer and four INTA technicians, some of whom had previously participated in the project Digital innovations for smarter pasture management. This highlights the continuity and further development of this line of work related to grazing management and forage resource management in the region.

The activities combined theoretical and practical sessions. During the presentations, participants shared the conceptual foundations of grazing management through pasture stock monitoring and control, known as the 3R management approach. Field activities were also conducted to identify real management situations and apply methodologies for estimating forage availability.

The workshop also included the presentation of satellite-based tools to support biomass sampling and the 3R web platform, developed to facilitate grazing management and planning in livestock systems. The platform allows users to record field information, analyze forage availability, and support management decision-making.

This training activity represents a new step forward in the collaboration between FONTAGRO projects focused on innovation for pastoral livestock systems, promoting technical capacity building and the incorporation of digital tools to improve pasture management and the sustainability of production systems.