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Make your voice heard ‼️ Join the UFU rally on: 📆 Monday 18 November 📍 The Eikon Centre ⏰ 7.30pm We are inviting all farmers, landowners and supporters of the agri community to stand together in a show of unity. Join us as we rally to protect our heritage, livelihoods and our right to farm. The rally is open to everyone and we strongly encourage every generation on your family farm to attend. Unity is our greatest strength!
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What an amazing year it has been at VWB, read all about it in our annual report!
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Stop by and speak with us about how Viking can turn your municipality into a Smart City
Atlantic City, here we come! 🎡 The Viking team is heading to the New Jersey League of Municipalities 109th Annual Conference, November 19th - 21st. If you'll be attending, stop by Booth 1913 to learn how Viking Pest Control's SMART Cities initiative can work for your community!
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Learn about the incredible work of the Wabanaki Commission on Land and Stewardship: "We are the Wabanaki Commission on Land and Stewardship and First Light, and we're helping to reimagine Maine as a Wabanaki place by restoring Wabanaki presence and access to land. This work relies on relationships between Native and non-native people, each working within our own nations and organizations to find a better way forward, together." https://lnkd.in/erm5_t9F
Are you looking to make a positive change on your cattle operation in 2025? On this New Year’s Eve edition of Cattlemen to Cattlemen, we’ll show you how the USDA's Natural Resources and Conservation Service works with farmers and ranchers to offer the technical and financial assistance they need to protect and improve the resources in their care. 🤝 Check out this informative episode tonight on RFD-TV at 8:30pm ET or on our YouTube channel tomorrow morning at https://bit.ly/41uBo6O
We paused our sales experiment on the lake yesterday. We spent the past week communicating to our customers about the upcoming pause, and interestingly, our regulars understood why we were doing it and were ok with it, even if it means they need to source their produce from somewhere else for the time being. Why did we pause something that seemed to be working well, you ask? The reality of transitioning seasons was upon us. Seeds or saplings are planted, they grow and some time 45 days or so after planting, we start seeing the results of our efforts. They bear fruits and vegetables for some time and then they reach end of life, and must be replaced with new plants. This also typically matches with a change in season - in our case, from summer to monsoon. We had to remove our plants (mostly turn them over into the soil, so their nutrients are retained in the ecosystem), prep the fields by adding compost and other nutrients and remake the beds and sow new seeds / saplings. This could have been managed better - we could have had a phased transition where some farms were transitioned earlier and some later to ensure our produce did not stop. But, it required better planning, a diversified farm base and a lot of luck (we struggled for water in some of the farms at the peak of summer, which is when we would have had to sow new plants). Now, solving this problem using science, technology, planning & management is exactly why we started on this journey - but we do have miles to go before we get there 🙂 We did, however, increase our acreage this sowing season by 30%, bought a tractor of our own and achieved significantly better efficiencies SoS (Season on Season) in field preparation and sowing by some interesting and frugal engineering by Saurabh S.'s team - more on that in subsequent posts.
Our tractor starts work at the new farm, with a feathered welcome committee. Connect with us to learn more about our work and visit our farms. 🌱
What makes an index feeder better? 🟥 Indexing feeder lines is the proven key to better feed distribution in a pullet house at feeding time 🟥 By indexing the feeder system, producers can help minimize bird migration and fighting over feeder space at the start of feeding time because indexing spreads the feed around the house evenly 🟥 Aids the goal of having the optimum number of birds around each feeder pan Learn more about the KONAVI®️ Index Pullet Feeder here: https://bit.ly/4bSNNWA
🌟 Ready for some more turf talk? 🏞️ Discover how Envirofill’s performance stands the test of time! 💪 Whether it's drought, a downpour, or just downright cold, Envirofill consistently delivers top-notch results, ensuring your fields look and play their best year after year, season after season. 🌧️❄️☀️ Curious to learn more? Dive into our blog and see why Envirofill is the MVP of turf infill! 🏆 https://hubs.la/Q02y6H4B0
When I consider the sheer size and diversity of landscapes to manage, I am continually amazed at how it gets done. Some of that is generational knowledge, others, new ideas on the horizon. #southdakota #grassland #naturalresources #conservation https://lnkd.in/gQrcmnsg
We all know it’s a big job to manage the land and water resources on our cattle operations, especially as these commodities become more limited and valuable. That's where NRCS, the USDA's Natural Resources and Conservation Service, can play an important role. 💧 On this week’s Cattlemen to Cattlemen, we’ll show you how NRCS works with farmers and ranchers to offer the technical and financial assistance they need to protect and improve the resources in their care. Check out this informative episode tonight on RFD-TV at 8:30pm ET or on YouTube tomorrow morning at https://lnkd.in/gH3kJvys
