Join us and see firsthand how Doug Hanson and his family have successfully integrated crops and livestock! Hanson Land and Cattle is a forage-focused operation that utilizes highly productive prairie soils and extensive annual and perennial forage sequence along with beef genetics selected to thrive in a forage-based beef program.
We will start the morning off with the Pasture walk at their Danforth 76 acre grazing farm in the morning. The 16 paddock grazing farm uses cool season grasses and seasonal cover crops for grazing. It also uses cover crops from our grain acres for winter feed.
We will transition to Hanson Family Meats, a grazing/grain finishing/ and farm store in Gilman for lunch (sponsored by Illinois Beef Association) and discussion on using by-product feeds and managing an on farm store with on-line retail sales.
Pasture Walk Agenda
- 10:00am- Welcome
- 10:30- Pasture Walk
- Forage Cropping Plan Review for grazed & non-grazed acres
- Decisions based on Federal Crop Insurance, forage needs, soil health
- Summer annuals planted for summer slump
- Discuss Fall Annuals used for spring grazing
- 12:30pm- Lunch
- Eat, network & visit displays (IL Forage Council, IL GLC, IL Soy, IL Corn, Soy processing company, Doug’s company, GLBW, etc.)
- 1:30- Presentations
- Programs available for Soil Health Goals
- Using local by product feeds/soybean hulls/Incobrasa & ProHarvest Seeds
- FSA Beginning Farmer Loan
- Maddie: direct marketing beef
- Using Beef Embryo technology for Beef & Show Cattle
- Feedlot management (is this where we talk about manure management?)
- MMIH: survey results, case study results
- 3:00-Adjourn
Isabella Hanson will be available to answer quesiton’s on raising and managing Alpaca’s. Besides grazing on our farm they provide a lot of enjoyment for people to see and touch.
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