The National Wildlife Turkey Foundation’s (NWTF) Michindoh Longspurs approached us last year to host a Turkey Hunt for disabled individuals.
In just a few short weeks with a lot of effort from NWTF and Volunteers from around the area we will be hosting “The First Annual Wheelin’ Sportsman” event, where 16 people with disabilities will get the opportunity to experience one of the outdoor’s many thrill’s.
Hopefully this can be a great event for everyone involved.
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As of Thursday April 19th, Bridgewater Dairy has hit zero manure day.
Oakshade dairy is hard at work hauling manure and expecting to be done middle of next week, and
Bridgewater Farming has 800 acres of corn planted, with a goal of nearly 3000 acres.
It’s been a great spring so far.
Those of you that have been watching our blog for a few years, have noticed we have a special day called Zero Manure Day. This is the day we have no manure in our lagoons!!!
While we strive to be completely empty of manure in the spring and then stay empty all summer long it’s rare we get completely empty, but we often get really close.
It’s a new record for us to hit Zero Manure Day in April, usually we are just getting started. With the new equipment we are using, the early spring, and a lot of hard work. It looks like we are going to hit Zero manure day sometime next week!!!!
I recently was fortunate enough to attend the American Farm Bureau annual advisory committee meetings in Anaheim, Ca. Since I’ve been back many have asked if it was a worthwhile trip. As a whole it was a great experience to see what issues concern not just Dairies in other states, but Agriculture as a whole. But one issue clearly became evident as I was in California.
Today this article came across my email, and it was a clear picture of what I heard.
The link is below, I encourage you to read it. The dislike for Ag is real nationwide, and California is in the heat of it.
Some would kill the Golden Goose
As a food producer in Ohio and the United States we recognize food supply is not of concern to most of us. We believe it should be a concern, not for us but the rest of the world.
Check out http://plentytothinkabout.org/ a website dedicated to informing the world about food access.
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At 45.95 inches Toledo airport records second wettest year 12/4/2011. All time record since data has been recorded is 47.87.
Although Bridgewater installed a Weatherhawk Weather station late last year, and it is reporting 49.06 inches of rainfall for the year, which doesn’t surprise us, due to some of the extremely heavy rains we experienced this spring in the Montpelier, Ohio area.
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Half excited for fall harvest to begin, half anxious about all that might go wrong. … 50,000 tons of corn silage to chop starting tomorrow.
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