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Summer Field Days 2005, Out and About

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Laura Krouse, led a tour of a 4th-year prairie establishment at her July 27 field day. Corn was the center of attention at the corn breeding field day at Mike Natvig and Amy Miller's farm Sept. 27.
At the Neely-Kinyon Farm field day, Bernie Havlovic offered grape samples from more than a dozen table and wine varieties adapted to southwest Iowa. Ron Rosmann demonstrated the fine points of ridge-till cultivation at the PFI 20th anniversary field day near Harlan.
Eben and Lynn Salton, Webb, documented their organic flax for the joint PFI-ISU project. The flax was still in bloom at Jeff Longfellow’s field day near Bedford, July 1.
   
The Paul and Karen Mugge field day, near Sutherland, featured a discussion of production and processing issues that was captured by ISU’s Mary Wiedenhoeft. Vic Madsen, Audubon, visits with Dordt College students.  The Sept. 8 Madsen field day included many presentations on the Conservation Security Program, in which the Madsens are enrolled.
Linda Grice, South English, discussed the watering systems for the organically raised beef herd at the Sept. 24 Green Lands Blue Waters (GLBW) field day.  Linda presented economic scenarios based on grazing. Ron Grice shows a twisted wire end that makes attaching to a post easy.  The GLBW campaign promotes the use of perennial plants and crops for resource and conservation.
Tom Isenhart, ISU Dept of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, “read” the stream at the GLBW field day on the Grice farm.  Also presenting at the event were Rick Cruse, ISU Agronomy, and John Sellers, grasslands specialist with the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture. Arnie Williams checks the load-out during flax harvest with his son Dave, Storm Lake.  Dave and Norma Williams took part in the PFI-ISU flax research project.
Torray Wilson, Paullina, demonstrated swine sorting at the Wilson field day July 26.  The field day was part of the Research Alliance for Farrowing project and also included workshops by veterinarian Kurt Van Hulzen and Extension Swine Specialist Dave Stender. At the Oct. 1 field day, Gary Laydon, Plainfield, showed the frame of  an L-shaped draft deflector for the farrowing barn.  Strips of clear plastic at the entrance also help block the wind.
Gary Laydon and Pat Mennenga have also created several new hut designs.  This model opens up for ventilation; another has foam insulation.  An additional innovation is a portable steel fence for in-field processing of pigs; one of the peaceful sows in the photo has attacked when she thought her pigs were threatened. The corn picking contest at the Laydon/Mennenga field day got everyone involved!
All hitched up and ready to work.  Teams from around northeast Iowa came to participate in the field day on the farm of Gary Laydon and Pat Mennenga, Oct. 1.  The draft horses didn’t seem disappointed that all they had to do was pull the wagons for the corn picking contest.