Twenty years ago, Charles Fletcher of Edgewood Dairy and Creamery attended a University of Missouri Extension grazing school. It would change the future of the family dairy operation. Fletcher’s father started the dairy farm in 1966. His father milked cows by hand 365 days a year, morning and night. In 1993, the Fletcher family formed a partnership that included poultry…
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It Pays to Switch
Farmer shares success from converting pastures to novel endophyte fescues
Darrel Franson has seen substantial success at his small livestock production in southwest Missouri. He can tell by the extensive records he has kept. “I have kept data on every cow when it came in and when it went to market, every purchase of seed, how much I feed my livestock and every bit of money I have put into…