These hungry steers eat lots of food, over 2,000 pounds each morning to be exact. Until we get underway with the grazing study and turn the cattle out to pasture we have to keep them full somehow! Each morning these 75 head of cattle are fed a ration of silage and grain. We grind two silage bales with 750 pounds of grain totaling more than 2,000 pounds of feed. We then use the … [Read more...]
My name is Danni Hammontree and I’m from Liberty Missouri, just outside of Kansas City. I am a junior agricultural communications major with a minor in photography and marketing. I may have grown up in the city, but my family farm always had my heart. I have always loved being in the country and had a huge interest in agriculture. I love photographing outdoors and wildlife in … [Read more...]
Check out our progress! Intern, Rachel Kohne, applied fertilizer to the last few pastures left. Now, we can finish our paddock fences and turn the cattle out on the prepared pastures. As of now, cattle will be turned out by the end of March. … [Read more...]
Monica Gevers and Riley Phipps setting up paddocks at Shealy Farm for future research development. In a few short weeks, cattle will be turned out and our research will begin! … [Read more...]
2018 kicks off the new semester here at Missouri State University. With the new year we have a new group of interns for the Shealy Farm grazing research. Student intern Riley Phipps checked in with her fellow interns to see what was going on! Here is what she found! Danielle Hammontree is using the NIR instrument. The NIR analyzes nutrients from ground forage samples. … [Read more...]