Sarah Jane Abatti is a range nutritionist with Hi-Pro Feeds based in the Texas Panhandle. She combines ruminant nutrition and range science to help ranchers optimize forage use, grazing systems, and reproductive performance on both native and improved rangelands. At Confluence 2026, she will present “You Should Give a Damn About Your Grass,” a candid conversation on better understanding your forage base and “grass mileage”, and “Feed ‘Em and Breed ‘Em: Fetal Programming on the Ranch,” an in-depth discussion on how nutrition and management during gestation influence calf performance for life. Sarah Jane is passionate about translating research into real-world ranch applications and believes that healthy grass is the foundation of profitable, resilient operations.