U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center Webinar: USDFRC 2024 Update – Jan. 3

Dec 29, 2023

Please join us for a turn-of-the-year update. We will provide a vacancy update including positions we have filled and positions in the process of being filled. We’ll also address current vacancies that are in line to be advertised, as well as discuss our plans for addressing office and lab space shortages on the near and long-term. We’re also excited to share our progress on getting the construction started for the new dairy. Finally, we will lay out a plan for a revision and broadening of our stakeholder engagement strategy that we hope will continue our grassroots (pardon the pun) approach to prioritizing research efforts. Stay tuned for additional topics of interest. We look forward to you joining us!

Source : wisc.edu

Video: Learning to Wrench From Dad the Hard Way

Harvest is a week out and the farm picked this week to fall apart. The truck needs a battery, the barn curtain's got a problem, and the corn and beans are telling us we're out of time to get it all fixed.

So it's a full day of wrenching. Tork supervises while I get the truck back running, then we're out at the hog barn where one rusted up part has the whole curtain system hung up. Ladder work, cable work, and a little dad-and-son disagreement about the right way to do it. We close it out walking the fields, shelling beans and checking corn, because whether everything's fixed or not, harvest starts when harvest starts.

Chapters: 00:00 Everything breaks the week before harvest 01:00 Tork supervises while I fix the truck 12:30 Out to the barn to find the curtain problem 14:30 One rusty part hung up the whole curtain 20:00 Running the curtain cable from the ladder 24:00 Walking the beans and corn before harvest 26:30 Wrapping up

We're a 6th generation family farm in southeast Iowa showing the real ups and downs of pig farming and row crop farming. No script, just the work. Subscribe and follow along.

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