Please hold November 19 for a small dairy and beef feedlot tour. ISU Extension & Outreach and the Delaware County SWCD, with partnership assistance from USDA-NRCS, are hosting a tour at the Paul Overman beef feedlot and the Wayne and Wade Brunsman dairy farms north of Dyersville, Iowa. The tour will look at practices and management techniques to help small dairies and beef feedlots address potential water quality impacts of runoff from outside open lot areas. The farms feature clean water diversion from buildings and fields, covered and open manure storage, and feeding under roof. The event will also feature a manure spreader calibration exercise to help fine-tune application rates of nutrients used for crop production.
The tour will start at 10 a.m. at the Overman feedlot, will move to the Wade Brunsman dairy and then on to lunch provided at the Wayne Brunsman farm. After lunch the tour will conclude with a brief overview of the hoop barn facilities and manure handling and the manure spreader calibration exercise. For more information about this field day please call Angie Rieck-Hinz at Iowa State University 515-294-9590. This event will be held regardless of weather conditions so please come dressed appropriately. To respect biosecurity protocols, please wear clean street shoes and not barn or chore footwear. Plastic boots will be provided.
The Overman feedlot is located at 3327 163rd Street, New Vienna. From Dyersville, take highway 136 (exit #294 on highway 20) five miles north to New Vienna, then turn west on Main Street and follow West Main (Petersburg Road, which becomes 163rd Street) west two miles to the Overman farm. The Brunsman farms are located one quarter mile west and one mile north. Watch for signs.
This effort is part of the Water Quality Initiatives for Small Beef and Dairy Feedlot Operations. Additional details will be shared on the Small Feedlot Web page at http://www.agronext.iastate.edu/immag/smallfeedlotsdairy.html.
