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2017 WISCONSIN

Arlington, Wisconsin
August 22-23, 2017

INNOVATION. RESEARCH. SOLUTIONS.
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TUEsday, August 22, 2017 - FARM TOURS

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Choose from 1 of 3 tours!
Tours 1, 2, and 3:  Registration fee of $20 includes transportation and lunch. Preregistration required.
Check-in and bus departure will occur at the Expo site.
All tours will return to the Expo site by noon and will receive lunch at the Public Events Building.  All tours will return to this location for lunch and then be delivered to the EXPO after lunch.
**You must be checked in by 8:30am or your seat may be given to someone else

Click HERE to Register

Tour #1 - INNOVATION @ Statz Brothers Inc,. Sun Prairie, WI
Check-in by 8:30am at Expo site, Buses depart at 9:00 am

-  4000 Cow Manure Digester
-  Bedding Recycling
-  750,000 Gallon Digester Pit
-  20 Million Gallon Liquid Manure Storage Structure & Agitation System 
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Tour will feature the manure digester and bedding recycling facility of the Statz Brothers Farm of Marshall.  The tour will go through on of the dairy barns and then stop at the manure digester to hear about the digester design, solids separation for bedding recycling and the use of the gas and energy bi-products of the manure digester system.  The last stage of the system takes liquid to the storage lagoon.
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Tour #2 - RESEARCH @ Arlington Ag Research Station
Check-in by 8:30am   at Expo site
Buses depart at 9:00 am
**Three-part Tour

-  Dairy Manure Sand Processing & Recycling
-  Swine Manure Settling System
-  Irrigation of Liquid Swine Manure

-  Manure Runoff Study Plots

Tour will include a stop at the Arlington Ag Research Station Dairy Manure Run-off Study.  This research is comparing manure run-off on no-till versus chisel plow and soil finisher tillage.  The application timings are early December and late January.  Tour attendees will hear results of the study to date and implications for manure management and time of manure applications.


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Tour #3 - SOLUTIONS @ Endres Berryridge Farms Composting
Check-in by 8:30am at Expo site
Buses depart at 9:00 am


-  Composting Dairy Manure Under Roof
-  Topdressing Alfalfa Fields with Compost
-  Recycling Composted Dairy Manure as Bedding


Tour participants will be visiting the Jeff Endres dairy operation that utilizes a compost bedding management and bedding recycling system.  Bedding pack manure and sawdust are mixed with free stall manure before going to the compost pad that is under roof.  Compost windrows are built over 4 weeks and with scheduled turning produce finished compost over the next 8 weeks.  This compost system helps balance P & K for the farm nutrient management plan and brings the opportunity for better distribution of nutrients and a wider window for application.  Tour 3 will include field application of compost.
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Manure Expo Show Grounds
Over 80 exhibitors, educational programs, and more!
 
August 22:  Show Grounds open 12:00 pm - 8:00 pm
August 23:  Show grounds open 7:30 am - 6:00 pm

For an overview of the Expo agenda, click here.

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Manure Expo is owned by The Professional Nutrient Applicators Association of Wisconsin.