The Richland County Conservation District along with the MSU/Extension will host a Twilight Range Tour featuring the use of electric fence for range management.
The tour will be held on July 23 beginning at 3 p.m. Attendees will meet at the Girard Hall, six miles west of the Highway 16 and 201 junctions. The event is planned as a family event with a Dutch oven demonstration for the cooks in the family, games and contests for the kids and a tour of Dick and Connie Iversen’s use of electric fence to manage their grazing land.
If you want to go green in your pastures, participants will be viewing a solar pump being used for a water facility for livestock. A representative for the PowerFlex wpc Post will also be in attendance, along with other representatives and dealers. After the tour, a free-will steak supper will be served.
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Animal control is perhaps the most widely recognized reason for power fencing. Not only does power fencing keep domestic animals and livestock contained, it has various other important uses. Power fencing has revolutionized pasture management techniques and better pasture management means better profitability for farmers. Permanent or portable power fences are used to subdivide pasture to ensure even distribution of manure over grazing areas.
In this way, pastures are kept fresh, short and palatable which ultimately leads to increased milk and meat production. Other key benefits of power fencing are affordability, easily constructed and maintained, durable, because of low physical contact, light weight and easily transported, less animal hide and pelt damage and a deterrent to trespassers and predators. They are also great for quick fences around feed, dams, creeks or other isolated areas.
The Conservation District and MSU/Extension mission is to provide information and education to our local landowners that will benefit the natural resources in our county.
Organizers say, “Join us for the tour, demonstration, and bring the kids along on July 23 at the Girard Hall.”
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