The Turner Farm will host a Fall Field Day Nov. 12, beginning at 10 a.m., to discuss and showcase livestock water systems that provide healthy water, safe access and how to reduce the need to break ice in the winter.
Registration is required so organizers can plan for lunch. Please RSVP to the Allen County Conservation District Office at 620-365-2901, extension 3, by Friday.
The Field Day will begin at 9:30 a.m. with registration and coffee at the Mildred Store.
Participants will then travel to Turner Farms.
Sean Turner has developed several ponds that have been fenced from livestock access and water is piped to a tank for a water source. Livestock access lanes and winter feeding sites will also be discussed. Shawn will be discussing his projects and how they have improved his operation. Proper fencing techniques will be illustrated along with seeing how water tanks supplied by pond water can be beneficial to livestock, the producer and the water running downstream.
Immediately following the Field Day, organizers will gather back at the Mildred Store for a lunch and the Stakeholders Leadership Team Meeting of the Upper Neosho Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS).
This will be the final meeting for 2019 as WRAPS transitions into the new Statewide WRAPS grant that began July 1.
Everyone is welcome to stay for the SLT meeting.
