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Category Archives: Field Day

Specialized Farm Equipment Showcase dodges the rain

  Several dozen people braved the always cloudy skies to visit the 5th annual Specialized Small-Farm Equipment Showcase held at [...]

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On-Farm Poultry Processing for Home Use

**note**  The extended post contains photos and descriptions of poultry processing – be mindful if you don’t like the sight [...]

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Perennial Forage & Marketing Systems for Beef Cattle

An erratic spring and risk of thunder didn’t stop sixty people from attending Dan Specht’s field day on May 22.  [...]

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Stockmanship Workshop: Can you park a cow?

Though the crowd was small, it was mighty, and became mightier as the day wore on.  Twelve livestock farmers gathered [...]

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Organic and Niche Pork: Field Day at Frantzen Farm

Hog farmers and interested friends from across Iowa gathered to discuss challenges and opportunities in niche pork production at the [...]

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Mob Grazing with Neil Dennis

Dec 3 2012 Beatrice, NE   Canadian farmer and mob grazier Neil Dennis spoke a few weekends ago at the [...]

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Drought-Proofing Your Farm, Part 3

Since real-world experience is one of the best teachers, the final day of Darren Doherty’s farm design and planning workshop [...]

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Drought-Proofing Your Farm, part 2

Dec 1 2012 Fairfield, IA   After a Friday evening “teaser” lecture by Darren Doherty of HeenanDoherty land planning and [...]

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Drought-Proofing Your Farm, part 1

Nov 30 2012 Fairfield, IA   No one in agriculture has been immune to this summer’s drought.  Crop yields have [...]

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Livestock Budgeting Workshop with Tom Cadwallader

November 8 2012 Maxwell Legion Hall, Maxwell IA On a surprisingly mild Thursday in November, a small but sharp group [...]

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Two Men and a Goat

Fairfield IA Sept 13 2012   Got some brush you want cleared?  Weeds needing removal?  Poison ivy in your way?  [...]

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High-Density Grazing and Permaculture: Part 2

Seven W Farm September 18 2012   Following an enlightening talk on permaculture, participants at the Wilson’s field day on [...]

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High-Density Grazing and Permaculture: Part 1

Seven W Farm September 18 2012   The projector screen stood in stark contrast to the straw bales and farm [...]

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High-Value Rotations on a Grass-Based System

Wallace Farms August 17 2012   “It’s sure a nice sight to see this out in the middle of corn [...]

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Field day recap: Better Grass and Fly Control: A Dairy’s Path to Profits

Hosted by Jeremy and Jodi Peake Co-Sponsors: FHR, Northeast Iowa Graziers, Organic Valley, Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service, Allamakee [...]

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