Minnesota IFYE Abroad 2016
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MINNESOTAN ABROAD
CAITLYN KRUEGER IFYE 2016 PARTICIPANT
Let's find Minnesota...
HEre it is!!
Finland compared the United States:
India compared to the United States:
Let's take a trip to the farm first!
Farm sweet farm
Welcome to my Family's CENTURY Farm!
Pictured are the Grainry and Milkhouse
My family has been Farming for 4 generations and has had turkeys, hogs, and dairy.
mn hAPPY coWS
We milk around 40-50
Brown Swiss, Holstein, and Crossbreeds.
ouR MILKING PARLOR
tHIS IS step-up double 4 herringbone with automatic takeoffs
THE bULK tANK
dURING miLKING, COWS IN THE HOLDING PEN OUTSIDE
Here are 2 of my sister's Brown Swiss!
THE COW YARD IS WHERE COWS SPEND THEIR DAY
AT THE FEED BUNK AND SLEEPING IN THE FREE STALL BARNS.
In the summer...
our cows keep cool with a sprinker system on the feed bunk
The free stall barn houses our cows. We use sand for bedding.
The TMR (Total Mixed Rations) mixer prepares the cows' silage.
Inside The silo room feeds such as haylage and
CORN SIALAGE empty from silo and are brought to the TMR mIxer
The back of the silo room.
The pasture lane is where each summer
we send our dry cows and HEIFERS to pasture.
We raise about 45 steers for market.
THe Hay Barn
We keep heifers on the left, hay in the middle and steirs on the Right
The young stock barn
houses about 35 young heifers and steers.
THis is my Family's barn quilt "Turkey Trot"
My county, HOuston, is famous in MN for Barn Quilts
The machine shed and our one of our International tractors.
Calf Shed
We move our weaned calves to this shed
A look inside the shed!
We farm around 300 acres of crops such as corn, soybeans, alfalfa, and oats.
this is the view from behind the farm
Notice that many of our fields are in small strips
Our old machine shed.
The calf huts and my cousin Chloe
Home sweet home
My mom loves to FLower Garden!
Our backyard.
Let's go to Town!
ABOUT 10 MINUTES AWAY FROM MY FAMILY'S FARM
Main street
Caledonia, MN...We only have 1 stop light!
Our town's water tower.
My elementary school that I went to from K-8th grade - St. John's Lutheran School
WHere I when to High school
I graduated with 95 students in 2011.
Minneapolis
The Cherry and the Spoon
AT THE SCULPTURE GARDENs with my Cousins Violet and LEo
More about me...
I graduated from NDSU in DEc. 2015
I majored in Elementary Education
My Brown Swiss Cow Pixie whom I showed in 4-H
I SHOWED COWS IN COLLEGE TOO!
I love promoting the Dairy INdustry!
Ag in the Classroom is an event where I helped to teach children where their milk comes from.
Thanks for watching
Come and visit sometime!
