A42-Lancaster Farming,'Saturday, June 1 ,"2002 At Strieker’s, It’s June Dairy (Pasture Walk) Month ANDY ANDREWS Editor WERNERSVILLE (Berks Co.) Simple pasturing has made farming a lot more rewarding for grazier Forrest Strieker. This month marks a special place, too, for those who want to learn more about dairy grazing. Strieker will host a pasture walk at his farm this coming Monday, June 3. June is not only Dairy Month, but also Pasture Walk Month for many full-time and even would be graziers. Strieker, who has been dairy ing since 1978, began grazing in 1993. Now, every acre is grazed at the famir which amounts to 270 tillable acres. The herd num bers 105 head of Holstein, Jersey, and Jersey-Holstein crossbreds. Strieker, who farms with wife Barbara and sons Greg, 18, and Jeff, IS, is not on DHIA. But he ships an RHA of 13,000 pounds to Horizon Organic Milk, to a plant in Rocksbury, Delaware County, N.Y. Strieker also feeds about 10 pounds of grain per cow, which includes com, spelt, and miner als. To increase production, Md. Opens Ethanol Station ROCKVILLE, Md. Mont gomery County recently opened its first station to sell ESS fuel, a blend with high ethanol content. Douglas M. Duncan, county ex ecutive, opened the new station, in Rockville at the county’s re fueling facility. Although tradi tionally this site has only been available to county vehicles, Duncan is opening this ESS pump to the general public to use the fuel through a credit card sys tem. EB5, a blend of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline, is a clean-burning fuel produced in the United States primarily from com, a renewable resource. 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He also tests the pasture forage quality. “As for high quality, I let the cows tell me,” said Strieker. “The cows are my forage lab.” Strieker also offers free-choice hay most of the time, except when lush. They cut hay for ba leage, but offer year-round pas turing. Strieker’s pastures are com prised of orchardgrass, fescue, ryegrass, clover, and alfalfa. He plans to increase herd size to about 130-150 cows in the fu ture. Animal reproductive issues will be the focus of topics dis cussed at the pasture walk at Strieker’s farm on June 3, from 1 p.m.-3 p.m. Strieker has hosted such walks before, he noted. The invited guest to lead the discussion will be Dr. Steve Washburn, North Carolina State University. Washburn’s specialty is seasonality in dairy production, but he is ready to facilitate dis cussion among a wide area of topics, including crossbreeding, selection strategies, herd breeds, and goals and cow numbers. There is no charge for the event but interested participants ulate matter and oxides of nitro gen, and is the leading fuel for reducing greenhouse gases. Etha nol may soon become a home grown Maryland product. The opening of the Montgom ery County station became possi ble through a grant received by the Maryland Energy Adminis tration from the United States Department of Energy. The Mar yland Grain Producers Utiliza tion Board (MGPUB) has been instrumental in the actual plan ning and development of this project. The opening of this sta tion supports federal and state energy policies to expand the use of alternative fuels and reduce the country’s dependence on for eign oil. are asked to preregister with Penn State Cooperative Exten sion-Berks County, (610) 378-1327. For more information, contact Mena Hautau, Extension Agent, Pasture Walks Abound In Summer LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.) A series of pasture walks have been organized by local graziers in cooperation with Lancaster County Cooper ative Extension for people who are interested in grazing dairy cattle. Hours for all the walks are 10 a.m.-2 p.m., DST. For biose curity reasons, all who attend are encouraged to wear clean clothes, wash their footwear be fore visiting the host farm and before returning home, and stay out of feeding and young stock areas. Lunch plans vary with each location, as described here. In an effort to help host farms make necessary arrangements, reservations will be appreciated and can be made by calling the Lancaster Cooperative Exten sion office at (717) 394-6851. Dates, places, and other de tails are: • June 6. Ivan Esh Farm, Lancaster, 2210 Creek Hill Chute-Side Summer Series Offered MIDDLETOWN (Dauphin Co.) Due to increased interest the Pennsylvania Beef Council is offering a summer series of Chute-Side training session for the Pennsylvania Beef Quality Assurance program. Dates and locations follow. Starting time 6 p.m. Phone num bers are for directions: • June 26 Tioga County: Mike Ackley Farm, Sabinsville at (814) 628-4022, Earle Robbins ex tension agent at (570) 724-9120. • June 27 Butler County; Agricultural Generators Spectrum Detroit Diesel Automatic L.P. Gas, Diesel, ' Natural Gas 5 to 2,000 KW Service - Rental - New & Used Units In Stock ** -v> «»’■'mrv«sr » »* '*«'* * . Power Generation Systems Specialists Call Leonard Martin 717-273-4544 Fax 717-273-5186 Penn State Cooperative Exten sion-Berks County, P.O. Box 520, 1238 County Rd., Leesport, PA 19533-0520, (610) 378-1327; fax (610) 378-7961; or e-mail mmhlo@psu.edu. Road, south of Rt. 23 and west of Hartman Station Road. Ivan is a seasonal, all-grass grazier with 120 acres and 75 cows. A pasture walk will be conducted in the morning. Afternoon dis cussions will center on his dou ble-6 swing parlor, mowers, and irrigation equipment. Re freshments will be available, but bring your own lunch. • June 27. Arden Landis Farm, north of Kirkwood at 667 Puseyville Road, west of Rt. 472. Arden is a certified or ganic producer with 120 acres. He milks 90 cows in a double-8 swing parlor. In the morning, there will be a pasture walk and observation of grass variety plots and liquid waste irriga tion. The afternoon speaker will be Joel McNair, editor of Graze and writer for Milk Weed. Refreshments will be available, but bring your own lunch. • Aug. 1. Jeff Stoltzfus Farm, south of Kirkwood at 32 Mercer County Livestock Auc tion Market. Call Trish at (724) 662-2910 or Don Hunter, Butler County extension agent at (724) 287-4761. • July 5 Huntingdon Coun ty: Huntingdon Fairgrounds. Call Tammy Weaver at (818) 371-0100 or Stan McKee at (814) 643-1660. The Ciiute-Side training is the second part of a two-part pro gram that enables producers and others to become BQA certified. Training and evaluation pro vided by extension and industry 0330 Fonderwhite Road, Lebanon, PA 17042 Look at the Lancaster Farm ing Farm Calendar on page AlO and stories throughout the news paper in the weeks ahead for more pasture walk days and times. Lake view Road, east of Rt. 472. Jeff is a certified organic producer, an all-grass grazier with 150 acres. He milks 70 cows in a homemade parlor and has a simple manure and mortality composting system. Drinks will be available, but bring your own lunch. • Sept. 19. John Stoltzfus Farm, Parkesburg, north of Rt. 30 and west of Rt. 10 at 7643 N. Moscow Road. John is a cer tified organic producer with 50 acres of grass and 11 years of grazing experience. He milks 50 cows and feeds a mixture of grass and TMR. Lunch will be provided. • Oct. 10. Jake Zook Farm, southwest of Christiana at 1178 White Oak Road, between Nobel Road and Bartville Road. Jake has nine years of grazing experience and 100 acres of grass. He milks SO cows and feeds no grain. A light lunch and drinks will be provided. professionals assist producers in the necessary steps to insure safe ty and quality of beef. The first part, classroom ses sions have been held in February and March. The first part is also available on the Website, pa bqa.org. Participants need to complete both Classroom and Chute-Side for certification. Please confirm your attend ance at any of the above listed meetings by calling or e-mailing the Pennsylvania Beef Council at (717) 939-7000 or e-mail pstoop s@pabeef.org. p.t.o. BWjenerators 25 to 135 KW Units In Stock!
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