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  • Page 4 Dairy Star Second Section Saturday, May 28, 2016

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    NOW IS THE TIME TO REPLASTER YOUR SILO/BUNKER WALL!

    Marvin MetzgerRock Rapids, Iowa

    Marvin Metzger of Multi-Rose Dairy near Rock Rapids, Iowa, contacted Osakis Silo

    to replaster both sides of a 16x200 bunker wall last summer. Previously the surface was

    rough and the concrete was showing through the stones. Things look much better now.

    It looks good. I think its going to stay on pretty nice, Metzger, who milks 1,500 Jerseys with his family, said.

    It went well.

    The two herds also have different housing conditions. During the summer, the 140-cow conventional herd is housed on dry lots, and in the winter, they are kept in a bed-ded pack barn. With 300 acres of land to grow conventional crops, the cows are fed corn silage, hay-lage, soybean meal, distillers grain, corn, and minerals year-round with wet sugar beet pulp added to the ration during the

    winter months. They have higher inputs than the organic herd, Heins said. Unlike the conventional herd, the 130-cow organic dairy herd, which has been around since 2010, is housed outdoors year-round. During the grazing season, which usually is from May to late October, the organic cows are kept and rotationally grazed on a one-quarter to one-half

    acre-sized paddock 24 hours each day on the 400 acres of pasture the campus has. The group sizes on those paddocks depends if there are heifers or milking cows on the paddocks, Heins said. For the milking cows, we keep them to 20 cows per group and we have six groups. The groups will stay on their paddock between 12 hours to two days. The research project were

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    MISSY MUSSMAN/DAIRY STARThe 140-cow conven onal herd rests on a bedded pack outsideat the WCROC dairy near Morris, Minn. The conven onal herdis housed on dry lots during the summer and in a bedded packbarn during the winter.

    MISSY MUSSMAN/DAIRY STARA group of 20 cows in the organic herd graze on a cool season forage paddock on May 13. The WCROC rota onally grazes the organic herd on one-quarter to one-half acre-sized paddocks on the 400 acres of pasture the research facility has near Morris, Minn.