Page 10—Foraging Around, Lancaater Farming, Saturday, July IS, 2000 J.B. Harrold Joel Elder Phil Sheets Natural Resources Conservation Service By this time we have had two pas ture walks in the county. Hopefully you were able to attend these events. Both pasture walks were informa tive and a lot of useful information was passed. There are several more pasture walks planned for this summer. If you would like us to plan a winter meeting, please contact us and give us some ideas on what you want to hear about. The planned pasture walks are as follows: • Aug. 2 at 1 p.m. at the Phil Ott farm near Windber. Phil and his wife Debbie milk 76 cows and rota tionally graze about 60 acres of pas ture. They have great fence, water, and alleyway systems. Last year they took part in a trial demonstra tion project that involved alleyway stabilization with a coal combustion by-product. This product, when in stalled correctly, sets up like con .HlUSiBrTrTa _ \ v v ■ s'' Straight Through Design - The Dion Advantage All crop entering the harvester is cut, processed and blown all in a direct line, which improves harvesting capacity while slashing energy consumption. The “straight through” concept ensures a smooth, uninterrupted material flow that will deliver Right or Left Hand Unloading. 16 or 18 Feet. Forage Boxes RALPH W. KYLE ' ABCGROPFINC. Mercer. PA New Holland. m 888-968-4060 717-354-4101 NORTH-BAST DISTRIBUTORS BENCE S FARM EQUIPMENT West Clifford, PA Bedford. PA 570-222-9020 814-623-8601 ZIMMERMAN FARM SERVICE Bethefc PA crete. This farm is one of three projects to demonstrate coal com bustion by-product for stabilization. The stabilized area will be reviewed and discussed at the pasture walk. Ron Dodds with Barenburg seed will also be on hand to discuss forages and new varieties of seeds that are available to improve your pastures. • Sept. 5 at the William “Red” Whittaker farm south of Berlin. We will meet and depart the White Oak Churches at 7 p.m. to review the grazing system. Red has a beef Stocker grazing operation. He buys the livestock in the spring and grazes the livestock until he sells them in late summer. He grazes sev eral hundred acres. He is in the pro cess of installing a solar pump to water his livestock on pasture. Red has also planted some warm season grasses to graze and has partici pated in the streambank fencing program through DEP. This is one of the larger grazing operations in the county and Red manages it quite well. Dum 1224H224XC Pasture Walks Set • Oct. 3 at 1 p.m. at the John and Large Capacity Forage Harvester even the most stubborn haylage or silage directly to the back of your wagon. Couple this unique PuH-Type harvester design concept with a “Corn Cracker" option that loses no crop capacity running thror ' the rolls, and you have capacity propelled harvesters, High Capacity Blowers Dan Ferko farm near Central City. They graze a 60-cow herd through a paddock system with water in each paddock. Dry cows are also grazed through a paddock system with water in each paddock. Their heif ers, along with some contract heif ers, are grazed on another farm in a paddock system. This system is on strip-mined ground. Dan says graz ing is a lot of work but the returns he sees are worth all of the work. ROCKSPRING (Centre Co.) Spend a little time getting lost in corn, for a while, at Penn State’s corn maze here during Ag Progress Days. Next to the PFGC tent will be a corn maze that is four times larger These pasture walks normally last one to two hours and you are free to come and go as you please. We believe that these events are ed ucational and a benefit to any grazer. If you have any questions or comments or need directions, please contact us. A van will leave from the NRCS office for each of these pas ture walks. If you need a ride, please contact us for specific details. Hope to see you at the pasture walks. A Maze-N-Corn than last year and is wheelchair accessible. Ag Progress Days is scheduled Aug. 15-17 at Rockspring. Take your family through the maze, and when you’re done, visit the PFGC Hay show less than 50 feet away.
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