Wisconsin Farm Technology Days continues today 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.
Wednesday’s schedule, for the Sanford Health Marshfield Clinic FRESH (Farm Rescue, Education, Safety, and Health), includes a NECAS confined space/manure pit demo at 9:30am, 10:30am, 1pm, and 2pm, AgrAbility tractor for farmers with disabilities demo at 10am and 1:30pm, Marshfield Clinic stop the bleed demo at 11am and 2:30pm, tractor rollover rescue demo at 11:30am, and the grain bin rescue demo at 3pm.
For beef, they have the UW-Extension beef quality and yield grading at 9:30am and 11am and the Robert Kempf hoof trimming at 3pm. For horses, they have the Meyer hitch at 9:15am, the challenge competition – trail/obstacle 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 – musical freestyle class at 2pm.
For field demonstrations, they have mowing at 9:45am, field tillage at 10am, tedders/rakes/mergers at 10:30am, balayage balers at 11:15am, 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, David Trimmer – Dairy Science at 9:30am-10am, Inga Orth – Organic Dairy and Mental Health Entertainment/Education from 10am-11am, Mad Dog & Merrill from 11am-Noon, Cranberry Chats with Amber Bristow from 12:30pm-1:30pm, a Panel – Implement Dealers: Where is the Industry Headed?, and the Tom Kniess Band from 3pm-4pm.
They’ll have a field drone demonstration at 1pm. Finally, in the new Networking Hub, they’ll have USDA Updates with Andrew Iverson – State Director and Live Markets by Midwest Farm Report courtesy of Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales Association.
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