shop online at www.missourivalleyshopper.com May 10, 2016 • Page 5 S.D. 4-H Character Summer Feedlot Maintenance All Stars Project BROOKINGS, S.D. - Quality of the feeding environment can greatly impact the performance and cost-of-gain in a cattle backgrounding or BROOKINGS, S.D. - Beginning in the fall of 2016 the SDSU finishing operation. Extension 4-H Youth Development is excited to provide all “Cattle might possess the schools throughout the state with the opportunity to particigreatest genetics for growth pate in the South Dakota 4-H Character All Stars program. and carcass merit and be fed Formerly known as South Dakota 4-H Hometown Heroes, the most finely tuned ration the South Dakota 4-H Character All Stars program is designed nutritionists can formulate, to highlight high school seniors who serve as role models in but if the feeding environtheir school and community. ment is too stressful, those “The newly updated Character All Stars Project has been animals will simply not perguided by input from past teen and school participants,” exform as well as expected,” plained Karelyn Farrand, SDSU Extension 4-H Youth Character said Warren Rusche, SDSU Education Field Specialist. “Based on this feedback, SDSU Extension Cow/Calf Field Extension 4-H staff developed this new project.” Specialist. “For example, as More about South Dakota 4-H Character All Stars Project little as 4 to 8 inches of mud Farrand encourages all South Dakota schools (public and can reduce performance and private) to select two incoming high school seniors to serve feed efficiency by about 13 as character representatives and role models. percent.” These students will be trained by SDSU Extension 4-H staff To maximize control to deliver positive character messages to their peers and over environmental factors, younger students within their school, through interactive lesRusche said many cattle sons and activities. producers are considering “Research shows pre-teens and younger children often confinement systems such respond more enthusiastically to modeling by teens than as monoslopes and hoop adults. It has to do with the fact that youth look up to teens buildings - however, even and rapport is established very quickly,” Farrand said. “These with these structures he teen role models are truly key to this project’s success. By reminds producers that presenting a positive character message to the preteens and cattle still spend some time younger children in their school, these youth will gain the in the yard. benefits of hearing a positive character message while the “The reality is, the majorCharacter All Stars Representatives will gain leadership and ity of cattle will spend at presentation skills.” Below, Farrand outlines additional benefits to participating in the 4-H Character All Stars Project. 1. Schoolwide character programming for October through April; (StatePoint) Can the 2. Positive Character Message delivered to Elementary and appliances in your kitchen Middle School students; serve as your personal nutri3. Local Senior Role Models will present the kick-off chartionist? Not now, but soon, say experts. From your reacter message, lesson and activity; frigerator to your car to your 4. The Character All Stars Project will provide a yearly home thermostat, different Character Theme; appliances and objects are 5. The Character All Stars Project will include 6 character getting smarter and connectlessons and activities; and ing to the Internet and each 6. The Character All Stars Project will be evaluated for other -- and this is starting process and impact. to change the way families across the country are living. How Can Your School Participate If you’ve heard of the “InDeadline to participate in this program May 6, 2016. ternet of Things (IoT)” -- you For more information on how your school can participate know it’s the concept of conin this exciting project, contact your local SDSU Extension 4-H necting physical objects to Youth Development Advisor or Karelyn Farrand by email or the Internet and each other. call 605.626.2870. While you may already own - See more at: http://igrow.org/news/s.d.-4-h-character-alla few objects enabled by IoT, you can expect this technolstars-project/#sthash.cUUnN2Kv.dpuf niGrow ogy to further permeate your life in the future, especially at home. Thanks to consumer demand, smart home offerings are expanding rapidly -- from you read this smart refrigerators to smart least some time in an outside yard. So, paying extra attention to yard maintenance is an opportunity to improve the bottomline of cattle feeders,” he said. For many cattle feeders in South Dakota, especially backgrounders, Rusche said the summer months are a great time to address and correct any problems that might be present in open lots. “There is usually some time during the summer when the pens are drier and empty, providing the opportunity to do some prep work before fall,” Rusche said. Drainage issues When prioritizing which issue to fix first, Rusche said solving drainage problems needs to be the first order of business. “The key principle is to keep upstream water from flowing into the feedyard,” he said. “Water that never makes it into the pen cannot cause any additional mud problems.” Examine the upstream water flow and see if any of the diversion structures need some additional maintenance. Dirt mounds Dirt mounds in an open yard also need to be maintained to keep them working as designed. Cattle should have 30 to 50 square feet of mound space per head with a 4:1 to 5:1 slope on the sides. “Cattle should be able to walk from the concrete apron to the mound without having to walk through any potholes or muddy areas,” Rusche said. Compacted soil should be used to build backup mounds or fill in low spots rather than using manure scraped from the pen. Concrete aprons When constructing or expanding concrete aprons, Rusche said that at a minimum they need to be wide enough so cattle can pass behind their pen mates while they are eating. “Wider aprons mean that more of the manure ends up on the concrete rather than on the pen surface. Almost no one regrets pouring concrete aprons that are too wide.” Other considerations Equipment such as box scrapers do an excellent job of creating a smooth surface that helps prevent water from standing in depressions like hoof prints, etc. “It is important not to completely scrape all the way to the soil. “Leaving a thin layer about half an inch of manure helps form an impermeable soil/ manure interface that minimizes the amount of water leaching into the groundwater,” Rusche said. Rusche reminds producers not to overlook manure which accumulates under fences and feedbunks as these areas can be significant breeding areas for flies. They can sometimes also contribute to holding runoff in the pen instead of allowing the water to continue to flow into the containment structure. - See more at: http://igrow.org/ news/summer-feedlotmaintenance/#sthash. IRELItcj.dpuf niGrow Will Smart Home Technology Change the Way We Live? If you know... advertising pays! Call the Missouri Valley Shopper at 665-5884 or stop by to place your ad today! 319 Walnut St. • Yankton Yuan, IEEE Senior Member and founder of CATE Global and CEO of Motiveware Technology, predicts, “An intelligent machine or robot will soon take over the kitchen as cook, servant and nutritionist.” Yuan is hopeful such changes will make the operation of household appliances easier and more convenient. IEEE experts warn, however, that while all of this is exciting, in order for IoT to reach its full potential, a single communications standard will be needed so that products from different companies can communicate with each other. “If I buy one system, it may not work or synchronize with another system. I could be locked into one system, and that’s a big issue,” says William Webb, IEEE Fellow and head of consulting at Affini and CEO of Weightless SIG. Another concern for the growing smart home industry is security, and the risks are pervasive. A recent “Hackathon” hosted by MIT invited hackers to find security holes of smart home technology. The event reinforced this danger. “There are security concerns in all smart technology. There are security concerns in a smart trash can. Someone could hack in and see that there’s been no trash disposed of in the past few days. They can assume you’re not home and break in,” says Webb. 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