Don’t Forget, June Dairy Day is Saturday

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June 7, 2010

By GARY TILGHMAN Special to the Daily Times The Glasgow Daily Times Mon Jun 07, 2010, 10:52 AM CDT

GLASGOW — The 2010 version of the Barren County June Dairy Day is this coming Saturday, June 12. This year’s fun-filled activity will be held at the Cave City Convention Center lawn beginning at 10:30 a.m. and ending at 1 p.m.

Many activities are planned for Saturday’s program for your entire family!

Games (including dairy bingo and pin-the-tail on the dairy cow), exhibits (machinery and other “cool” stuff), musical entertainment; and of course, “KATE”, the Dairy cow, along with ice cold dairy products (including ice cream, milk and cheese) will be enjoyed throughout the activity.

A KDA mobile demonstration lab is also scheduled to be here to demonstrate some “fun” stuff (very interesting for everyone, young and old).

Dairy promotion items and door prizes will also be given away.

This year, the 4-H Moo Crew (Barren County’s 4-H Dairy club) will host a Cornhole tournament. Get your team together, practice up and prepare for a great competition.

A special recognition will be announced by our local Barren County Dairy Producers Association.

The newly crowned 2010 Barren County June Dairy Prince and Princess will also be recognized at this event.

A great day of fun and activities has been planned by the Barren County June Dairy Committee.

Let’s salute our dairy farmers and also salute and say a bit thank you to all our farmers who are diligent to produce food for our tables. How else better to do that, than to attend this celebration and enjoy the fun in the process.

This is always a treat for the June Dairy Committee to host and we look forward to supporting it, as well.

If you are looking for a fun-filled, family oriented event, here’s your opportunity to kick off the summer.

Mark your calendar to be at the Cave City Convention Center lawn on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. and enjoy the fun with us.

Increase pasture profits using cross fencing

Electric fence is the easiest and cheapest way to increase production from summer pastures. Dividing pastures with electric cross fences gives you more control of when and where your cattle graze.

It helps you encourage cattle to graze pastures more uniformly and completely, including areas they normally avoid. And, it can help you improve the health and vigor of your grass by giving it time to recover and re-grow after each grazing. As a result, your grass production and pasture carrying capacity will increase.

I’m sure you’ve seen many ads promoting high-powered, high-tensile, imported electric fencing systems.

In fact, I encourage using these systems in many situations — I use them myself.

But, cross fences do not need to be permanent, nor do they need to be expensive.

This is especially true if you already have electric fencing that your animals respect.

And using fencing you already have gives you an inexpensive opportunity to experiment with where you might eventually place a more permanent cross fence.

So, as the rapid spring growth of your pastures begin to slow down, use your electric fence to try some extra summer cross fencing of your pastures.

More grass, better gains, and better profits might be the result.

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