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Kady, Kurt, PJ, Kameron Myllymaki Bruce Myllymaki Operation 5 Years - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Kady, Kurt, PJ, Kameron Myllymaki Bruce Myllymaki Operation 5 Years - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Kady, Kurt, PJ, Kameron Myllymaki Bruce Myllymaki Operation 5 Years Ago February/March Calving April-June Field Work Late June-Early July Haying July-August-September Harvest September-October Seeding October, Ship calves,
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Bruce Myllymaki Kady, Kurt, PJ, Kameron Myllymaki
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Operation 5 Years Ago
➢February/March Calving ➢April-June Field Work ➢Late June-Early July Haying ➢July-August-September Harvest ➢September-October Seeding ➢October, Ship calves, preg check cows ➢December-April Feed Hay
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Why Changes Needed To Be Made
➢Burnout at start of new seasons ➢Previous generation wanting to slow down ➢Reluctance to hire help ➢Inputs reducing farming profits ➢Winter calving ➢Make more profit from cattle
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Cattle related Enterprise Changes ➢Grazing ➢Eliminated haying production Enterprise ➢Move calving from February/March to May/June
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Increase Stock Density
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Fast Growth, Move Fast = Daily Moves / Slow Growth, Move Less Often
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LONG REST PERIODS!!!
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Eliminated Haying Production
Why? ➢Too Expensive ➢Labor ➢Quality of Life
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February/March Calving
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May/June Calving
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Cattle Change Benefits
➢Grazing practices have extended grazing season ➢Reduced feed costs by at least 75% ➢Increased profitability ➢Decreased workload * ➢Happier, content cattle ➢Overall quality of life higher
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Farming Enterprise – 5 years ago
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Soil Health Principles
➢ Soil Armor ➢ Minimize Soil Disturbance ➢ Diversity ➢ Continual Living Roots ➢ Livestock Integration
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Soil Armor
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Soil Armor Stripper Header
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Stripper Header Benefits
➢Faster harvesting speeds ➢Less wear on combine ➢Combine uses less fuel ➢Cleaner sample ➢Snow catch ➢Protects seedlings ➢Shades and covers soil ➢Soil Temp*
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Minimize Soil Disturbance
➢No-till ➢Plant Green ➢Fertilizers ➢Herbicides ➢Pesticides ➢Fungicides ➢Insecticides ➢No-till is not Enough!
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Diversity
➢-WSG, CSG, CSB, WSB ➢-Diversity of cash crops ➢Cover Crops ➢Intercropping
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WSG CSG Winter Wheat Spring Wheat Barley CSB WSB
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WSG Millet Sorghum/Sudan Sudan CSG Winter Wheat Spring Wheat Barley Oats CSB Peas, Forage Collards Flax, Canola, Faba Bean Turnips, Vetch Phacelia, Mustard WSB Chickpeas Buckwheat Sunflowers
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Cover Crops
➢-Flax (always)
➢-Turnips and Collards (never more than 1#) ➢-Sunflowers ➢-Be mindful of herbicide carryover ➢-Easy to overgraze ➢-What are your goals?
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Chickpea/Flax
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ChickPea/Flax
- IT WORKS!!!
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What are our weeds telling us?
➢Too Much Bare Soil ➢Not Enough Diversity ➢Weeds Cycle Nutrients ➢Best way to beat a Weed is with a Seed! ➢As long as we spray weeds we will always have weeds to spray! Do weeds make our land unhealthy or appear because our land is unhealthy?
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Continual Living Root
➢Cover Crops ➢Companion Crops ➢Perennial Mixes in Rotation ➢Cover Crops Behind Combine after WW ➢No Fallow
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Livestock Integration
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Our System
➢Working With Nature ➢5 Soil Health Principles ➢Profit Over Yield/Pounds ➢Quality of Life
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“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”
- Hen