{"id":71343,"date":"2016-07-27T10:58:45","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T14:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=71343"},"modified":"2016-07-26T16:01:07","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T20:01:07","slug":"new-moon-farms-ne-sare-farmer-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=71343","title":{"rendered":"New Moon Farms&#8217; NE SARE Farmer Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=70770\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-70770\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-70770\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/MCCPaperLogo-300x254.jpg\" alt=\"MCCPaperLogo\" width=\"300\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/MCCPaperLogo-300x254.jpg 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/MCCPaperLogo-150x127.jpg 150w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/MCCPaperLogo-400x339.jpg 400w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/MCCPaperLogo.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Learn about the Success of Different Bedding Types in a Composted Bedded Pack Barn<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New Moon Farms will discuss the results of their Farmer Grant from NE SARE on <span data-term=\"goog_1149695721\">July 30 at 1:30 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>New Moon Farms is located at 5533 Stockbridge Falls Road, Munnsville.<\/p>\n<p>For their NE SARE Farmer Grant, Chris and Sarah Ficken experimented with three different types of bedding (peanut hulls, peanut hulls mixed with woodchips, and Clean Cow Dairy <!--more-->Bedding) in their composted bedded pack barn with an eye to bedding cost per cow per day, herd health, nutrient management, cow comfort, and ease of maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>Kiln dried sawdust was used as the control.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Lauro from Casella Organics will be joining us to talk about the Clean Cow Dairy Bedding.<\/p>\n<p>Lunch will be available to purchase from the Young Riders 4-H club and there will be fun activities throughout the day in celebration of Madison County Open Farm Day.<\/p>\n<p>RSVP to Sarah Ficken at <a href=\"mailto:newmoondairyfarms@gmail.com\">newmoondairyfarms@gmail.com<\/a> or just show up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn about the Success of Different Bedding Types in a Composted Bedded Pack Barn New Moon Farms will discuss the results of their Farmer Grant from NE SARE on July 30 at 1:30 p.m. New Moon Farms is located at 5533 Stockbridge Falls Road, Munnsville. For their NE SARE Farmer Grant, Chris and Sarah Ficken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23679,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agfarming","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}