https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx Developments of Grassland - 5 YEAR PLAN en-us 2020-02-11 09:06:49 UTC 2023-01-30 05:57:05 UTC hello@padlet.com sarah_graham11 https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/443564929 Dixon Springs Agricultural Center in Southern Illinois
Fall Calving Cow/Calf and Research Operation 

5509 acres (2229.413 hectares)
   -580 acres owned
   -4,929 acres leased from the Shawnee National Forest 

DSAC area: 3968 ac
ANSC total area: 2708 ac
ANSC forage area: 2400 ac
Fields: 133 fields
Fences: 103 miles 
Roads: 24.3 miles
Corrals: 9 working centers
Timber and Fallow: 258 & 35 acres

Grazing days 210 days
Cost/day: $0.40
Feeding days: 150
Cost/day: $2.05
Grain Stored: 842 t
Silage Stored:500 t
Hay Stored: 4500 bales

1203 head of cattle
  -590 cows
  -95 yearling
   heifers (13-24 m)
  -151 young heifers
   (8-12 m)
  -121 steer calves
  -215 heifer calves
  -31 clean-up 
    bulls

Forages
Cool Season grass:
  Tall Fescue E+
  Novel Fescue
  Clover w/r
Warm Season grass:
  Sorghum hybrid
  Crabgrass
  Johnson Grass
Cover Crops:
  Winter rye
  Crimson clover
  Wheat]]> 2020-02-11 10:07:36 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/443564929 sarah_graham11 https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/443565808 -Young manager, full time job
-Educated: DVM and MS
-Willingness to progress
-Technology Adoption-Innovator (2.5%)
-passionate employees
-Good relation with direct oversight 
-Heavy focus on research
-On-site Illinois Beef Extension Officer
-Social Media collaboration
-Brazilian beef  background
-In depth map]]> 2020-02-11 10:10:08 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/443565808 sarah_graham11 https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/443565847 -Understaffed
-Whole day to check cattle
-Inefficient moving of cattle-horseback
-Inconsistent rotational grazing 
-New management learning curve
-Winter feeding problems
   -poor quality hay
   -no silage infrastructure
-Time management
-Old/efficient infrastructure
-bad relations with local companies/ hostility from neighbors
-Oversight inefficiency
  -distance from school: 3 hours
  -Allocation of 
   resources is  scarce
-Research Parameters
-inconsistent reseeding
-Competing weeds to grass]]> 2020-02-11 10:10:13 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/443565847 sarah_graham11 https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/443565872 - Join a grass focused association: Illinois Forage and Grassland Council
- Join a young beef farmer leaders association -IBA
- Attend farm walks 
- Measurement tools available: Grasshopper or Grasstec
-Reseeding program
- Create silage infrastructure to decrease winter cost
-New technology adoption
-Use UIUC connections ]]> 2020-02-11 10:10:20 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/443565872 sarah_graham11 https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/443565905 The objective for this operation in the next 5 years is to start measuring grass consistently, budgeting for new projects, + create a rotational and winter grazing plan.]]> 2020-02-11 10:10:25 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/443565905 sarah_graham11 https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/443565925 2020-02-11 10:10:30 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/443565925 sarah_graham11 https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/443566017 -Soil fertility  
 test
-Bushhog 2000 acres annually
-In-Person communication meeting with all levels of oversight to lay out 5 year plan for the future of Dixon Springs
-Budget for 2 part-time bushhoggers for the growing season
- Create silage pad/infrastructure
-Get Grasstec electronic plate meter
-Weekly test grass heights in pastures 
-Fix essential infrastructure problems on farm]]> 2020-02-11 10:10:50 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/443566017 sarah_graham11 https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/443566038 -Bushhog 2000 acres annually
-Plant silage crop
-Try electrical or temporary fencing techniques to split up pastures
-Weekly test grass heights in pastures
-Create long term solutions to infrastructure problems 
-Amend the weed:grass ratio for each pasture for better rotational grazing 
-Fix Grain Bins + Feed Truck for more efficient supplementation and feeding]]> 2020-02-11 10:10:54 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/443566038 sarah_graham11 https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/443566054 -Bushhog 2000 acres annually
-Adjust the weed:grass ratio for each pasture for better rotational grazing 
-Weekly test grass heights in pastures 
-Continue to create long term solutions to infrastructure problems 
-Soil Test-monitor progress
-Get New Tractor for more efficient pasture maintenance
-Start a silage analysis]]> 2020-02-11 10:10:59 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/443566054 sarah_graham11 https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/443566072 -Bushhog 2000 acres annually
-Weekly test grass heights in pastures
-Continue to create long term solutions to infrastructure problems
-Adjust the weed:grass ratio for each pasture for better rotational grazing ]]> 2020-02-11 10:11:04 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/443566072 sarah_graham11 https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/443566134 -Bushhog 2000 acres annually
-Weekly test grass heights in pastures 
-Adjust the weed:grass ratio for each pasture for better rotational grazing 
-Continue to create long term solutions to infrastructure problems]]> 2020-02-11 10:11:08 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/443566134 sarah_graham11 https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/443567272 -dry and hot in summer
-heavy snow and cold in winter
- extreme weather events
- Leased land: no pesticide treatment, only bushhogging
-Reduction in meat consumption
-Aging farmers (less likely to utilize research we are producing)
-Labor shortage/wary
-Policy
-Political atmosphere/Trade-war
-Demand for beef influences beef industry research attention 
-Tall Fescue ergot alkaloid - decreased profitability
-Health-anaplasmosis, pneumonia, leptospirosis]]> 2020-02-11 10:14:36 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/443567272 sarah_graham11 https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/443572112 2020-02-11 10:28:50 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/443572112 sarah_graham11 https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/444034912 2020-02-11 22:00:38 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/444034912 sarah_graham11 https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/444037772 2020-02-11 22:07:43 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/444037772 sarah_graham11 https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/444048619 2020-02-11 22:38:24 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/444048619 sarah_graham11 https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/444057494 2020-02-11 23:06:01 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/444057494 sarah_graham11 https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/444057998 2020-02-11 23:07:41 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/444057998 sarah_graham11 https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/444058682 2020-02-11 23:10:15 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/444058682 sarah_graham11 https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/444060481 2020-02-11 23:16:27 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/444060481 sarah_graham11 https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/444061218 2020-02-11 23:19:22 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/444061218 sarah_graham11 https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/444446499 2020-02-12 16:26:27 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/444446499 sarah_graham11 https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/444484758 2020-02-12 17:12:11 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/444484758 sarah_graham11 https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/445217822 -current economic value of these southeastern forage systems of the beef system is approximately
US $11.6 billion annually(Bouton 2007)
-Currently 19 million hectares of tall fescue
pasture in the country(Bouton 2000)
-Negative effects of fescue toxicity on animal liveweight gains and reproduction
result in annual losses of US$600 million (Fribourg and Waller 2004)
-The total USA inventory of beef cows was estimated at 31.7 million head, with cow-calf operations (USDA 2018)]]> 2020-02-13 18:54:42 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/445217822 sarah_graham11 https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/446726993 2020-02-18 11:18:06 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/446726993 sarah_graham11 https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/446727278 2020-02-18 11:19:23 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/446727278 sarah_graham11 https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/446729039 2020-02-18 11:26:48 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/446729039 sarah_graham11 https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/446732108 2020-02-18 11:37:37 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/446732108 sarah_graham11 https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/446738346 2020-02-18 11:59:28 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/446738346 sarah_graham11 https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/449998435 2020-02-25 10:49:54 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/449998435 sarah_graham11 https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/449998549 2020-02-25 10:50:30 UTC https://padlet.com/sarah_graham11/295ie6wt2inx/wish/449998549