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MINNESOTAN ABROAD
CAITLYN KRUEGER IFYE 2016 PARTICIPANT
Let's take a trip to the farm first!
A view of my family's Farm from above
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
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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
iT HOLDS ABOUT____ LBS OF MILK AT A CONSTANT ___ DEGREES
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 up to ----- head of cows.
The TMR (Total Mixed Rations) mixer prepares about ____ lbs of silage.
Inside The silo room feeds such as...
FOod from the silo and is 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.
In the hay barn we keep heifers on the left, hay bales in the middle, and steers 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 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
