Crop Life-cycle

Diversified Farm Operations are the norm now.  Combining row crops and raising livestock.  We will save the benefits in doing this for another time.  We want to focus on one aspect.

The Crop Life-cycle

You carefully choose what you will plant; mixing corn and beans with plots of wheat or grasses to provide the needed nutrients for your livestock as well as bedding and the market for selling surplus crops.

You grow these crops and harvest for feed for your livestock or to sell the additional crops you produced.  You may have pasture that you rotate your livestock through during this time.  Even after combining corn, you can have your livestock graze and bale the fodder for bedding.

You spread the material you have stored for bedding, and the material you use to feed ends up mixed with this bedding as manure.  The mix of organic material and manure is able to be removed and spread out on the fields.  This is the base for the next crop to start the process over.

Choosing to use organic bedding completes this life-cycle and eliminates wasting crop material.

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5 Reasons to Use Organic Bedding

Why We Choose Organic Bedding for our Livestock Comfort.

 

What is Organic Bedding?

Organic Material is made from a living organism such as a plant.  This differs from other options that are processed such as sand or the use of rubber mats.

 

There are many types of organic bedding.  The most common are:

• Wheat Straw
• Oat Straw
• Corn Stalks 

5 Reasons to Use Organic Bedding

1. Absorbs moisture and prevents runoff.

Different types of organic material absorb at varying levels.  Corn stalks are the most absorbent of the three we have listed as the most common.  The benefit of using the more absorbent material is that you use less material because it lasts longer.  This will in turn save you time bedding and removing waste less frequently as well as saving money on bedding.

 

Using organic material prevents runoff.  The material absorbs liquid waste preventing it from running into your soil causing contamination and soil erosion.

2. Reuse materials for fertilizing crop ground.

Collecting waste with organic material provides a head start for fertilizing your crop ground.  Spreading your livestock waste with organic material provides nutrients and needed organic matter for your soil composition.  Organic matter provides a reservoir to store the nutrients from your livestock waste.

 

Using organic bedding ensures you don't have to find a way to dispose of your livestock waste and used up material.  You are able to reuse the material and waste for additional use on your farm.  This completes the cycle for growing the food for your livestock.

3. Less joint impact on livestock.

Providing a soft bedding for your livestock encourages more rest time for your livestock.  In general, 10 hours of rest leisure time is recommended.  When livestock stand in sand, they not only have harsh impact on their joints when they walk, the sand also deteriorates their hooves.  This makes it uncomfortable and difficult for them to walk around.  Using a more forgiving bedding option provides ease of lifestyle for livestock.

4. Protects equipment from clogging.

Using material such as corn stalks or straw are long enough they will not get trapped in drains and other equipment.  When using sand, it easily runs off and clogs drains, motors, chains, etc.  This can cost hours of time spent unclogging and hundreds of dollars replacing worn or broken parts.

5. Renewable Resource that is readily available.

As a whole, farmers are moving to choose options that are sustainable and benefit the environment.  In the Midwest, sand is found from byproducts of fracking.  This releases toxins into the air and has many negative impacts.  Most livestock farmers are also crop farmers or have neighbors that crop farm.  This makes finding the right type of organic material for you a breeze.  These crops are replanted every year.  This prevents soil erosion, provides adequate bedding for your livestock, and puts nutrients back in the soil to sustain the next crop.

 

These are just some of the benefits of using organic material for your bedding. 

 

 

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