The Ohio Sustainable Farm Tour and Workshop Series continues at 10 a.m. Friday, July 15, with the Quality Forages for Dairy Operations Farm Tour. It’s at the Heckman Family Dairy in Yorkshire in western Ohio. The Heckmans milk 80 cows, raise replacements and rotationally graze them on 340 certified organic acres. They also grow all their own feed. Learn more here on pp. 11-12.
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Wednesday: How to fight flies at organic dairies
Researchers Roger Moon and Brad Heins will describe “Unique Fly Control Methods for Organic Dairy Production” when eOrganic’s free organic farming webinar series continues at 2 p.m. EST on Wednesday, March 24. Register here. Moon and Heins work at the University of Minnesota.