RFD Livestock Report July 25, 2023

Jason Webster, Precision Planting Agronomist. Webster says this summer the farm will showcase an Autonomous Livestock Confinement Center. As a part of their sustainability research, the center will be rolling through a strip cropping field this summer. The center will move daily and house sheep, goats, and poultry.(eventually hogs) The manure will be distributed as a part of the farm’s fertility program. The research project will be a 3–10-year trial and the first year’s results will be collected this fall, with harvest.