Mary Howell

Mary Howell has been a part of agriculture all of her life. Growing up on a farm in west central Kansas, she started her cow herd at a very young age with an orphan heifer calf. Adding heifers over the years a commercial cow-calf operation was put together. Today, Mary along with her husband Dan raise cattle, have converted their North-east Kansas farm completely to grass, forages and cover-crops to compliment their native grass. They have one adult daughter, Ashley.

For the last twenty-five years, Mary has worked with Kansas Graziers Association, Kansas Rural Center, Kansas Farmers Union, Kansas Grazing Lands Coalition, Kansas Alliance for Wetlands and Steams and collected data for Kansas Ag Statistics. Her work promotes improving agricultural stewardship and practices in grazing, soil health, farming, water quality, livestock handling, stockmanship, and herd health. Mary serves on the Kansas Soil Health Alliance as a producer board member. She also is a board member for Kansas Grazing Lands Coalition as well as the National Grazing Lands Coalition.

Mary is a service provider for farmers, ranchers and many of the above mentioned organizations putting together educational programs, tours, and activities to bring producers together to learn ways to improve their livelihood, production and profit. She believes that one of the very best ways to learn is to offer farmers, ranchers, as well as organizations and agency folks the opportunity to get together, take advantage of educational opportunities, share their successes and struggles to learn from each other.