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Winter Feeding Farm Tours By Nick Roy The Adair County Cooperative Extension Service is offering a series of farm tours on Thursday, March 21, 2019, to shed light on some ideas for winter feeding. The tours will offer ideas to match any farm size or level of investment one desires to make to help make winter time easier on cattle and our pastures. All times listed for farms after Tour Stop #1 are approximate as travel time and discussion may impact actual arrival time. Attendees are welcome to join in on all tour or just the tours of you interest. Transportation is not provided. Dress appropriately for early Spring weather - including the boots! Tour Stop #1 - 2:00pm - Ridgeview Dairy In recent years, many beef producers have become interested in compost bedded pack barns for housing beef cattle during winter months. At Ridgeview Dairy we will visit with Tim Baker and Sam Baker to learn how their compost bedded pack barn is working for their dairy. General management principles and costs associated with a compost bedded pack barns for dairy cattle can be generally associated to that with beef cattle. Many of the same benefits and challenges will exist. Location: 934 Allen Schoolhouse Road in Adair County. Take Hwy.206 from Columbia 6.6 miles and turn right onto Hwy.531. Got approximately two miles and turn left onto Allen Schoolhouse Road. Continue about one mile and the farm will be on the right. Tour Stop #2 - 3:00pm - Eagle's Nest Farm Fred Thomas has been using bale grazing for several years now and he will be quick to tell you that this winter has been the most challenging yet. However, you will likely be surprised of how minimal the damage to the pasture was. In addition to being a low cost method of feeding hay, there are no ruts made in the field by the tractor as all of the hay gets set out at the beginning of the hay feeding season. With hay set all across the farm, manure is equally distributed across the farm increasing soil fertility and reducing fertilizer expenses. Location: From Hwy.206 take Christine Road (Hwy.531) and take the first left fork onto Christine Sano Road. Continue over a hill and the farm entrance will be on the left. There will be a barn and a small bridge at the farm entrance. Tour Stop #3 - 4:00pm - Grider Farms The Griders have just installed a very low cost yet efficient high traffic pad and hay feeding rack to serve a 40 cow herd. The Griders also have a feedlot with a high traffic pad surface that was installed 5 years ago. Calves are backgrounded in the area and manure and hay waste is scraped off on an as needed basis. The area has kept calves clean with very minimal maintenance expense. Location: Near mile marker 2 on Milltown Church Road enter Grider Farms (Poultry Barn) and follow road behind poultry houses. Milltown Church Road (Hwy.959) stretches between Edmonton Road (Hwy.80 West) and Milltown Road (Hwy.768). Tour Stop #4 - 5:00pm - Terry Withers & Jordan Withers Beef Farm Terry recently purchased a farm that was previously used as a dairy. Together, Terry and Jordan have worked to retrofit the facilities to serve as a hay feeding area for their herd of beef cattle. While it may not be economically feasible to build such a facility from scratch, the facility demonstrates the many changes we see in animal behavior as we begin to concentrate animals, their feed, and water. Many lessons can be demonstrated that can apply to the construction process of any hay feeding facility. Location: Take Hwy.633 off Hwy.55 North and then turn left onto C.R. Jones Road. Drive approximately 1 mile on C.R. Jones Road and the farm will be on the left. For more information, contact the Adair County Cooperative Extension Service at (270) 384-2317. This story was posted on 2019-03-11 12:05:15
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