Today is the final day of Wisconsin Farm Technology Days at Redetzke’s No Joke Dairy on Wescott Avenue just to the west of Stratford.
Show hours are from 9am-4pm and general admission paid at the gate is $15 per adult, cash preferred. Children 12 and under are free. There’s free parking and, please, no pets. They ask you to help protect visitors and the biosecurity of exhibiting animals.
The fifth-generation farm, owned by Matt and Brittany Redetzke and Sam Redetzke, has been in the family since 1911. Today, four generations help operate the farm, which is home to 400 head of cattle and is preparing to expand with a new robotic milking facility.
Thursday’s schedule, for the Sanford Health Marshfield Clinic FRESH (Farm Rescue, Education, Safety, and Health), includes tractor rollover rescue demo at 10am and 1pm, Marshfield Clinic stop the bleed demo at 11am and 1:30pm, grain bin rescue demo at 11:30am and 2pm.
For beef, they have the UW-Extension beef quality and yield grading at 9:30am and 3pm and the Robert Kempf hoof trimming at 11am. For horses, they have the Meyer hitch at 9:15am, the challenge competition – costume class at 10am, mounted justice at 11am and 3pm, rodeo queen at Noon, farmers olympics to follow, the Meyer Pyramid Hitch at 1:15pm, and challenge competition – challenge winners awards at 2pm.
For field demonstrations, they have static field display with mowers at 9:45am, field tillage at 10am, bale movers/baleage bale wrapping at 1pm, tillage at 1:45pm, and vertical beater manure spreaders at 2:30pm.
In the Rural Mutual Event Center, the VFW will have a presentation of the colors at 9am, Jacob Prater with UWSP at from 9:30am-10am, Marvin Reiff with a hay demo from 10am-11am, Mad Dog & Merrill from 11am-Noon, Scott Mahloch – FBI from Noon-1pm, Marshfield HoeDowners Square Dance Club from 1pm-2pm, and the Tom Kniess Band from 2pm-4pm.
They’ll have a field drone demonstration at 1pm. Finally, in the new Networking Hub, they’ll have a live hay study wrap up with Marvin Reiff and Live Markets by Midwest Farm Report courtesy of Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales Association.
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