Water

Rain and runoff at the farm

It has certainly been a wet and windy weekend at Roaring Creek Ranch!  The upper pond was nearly full, but the lower pond was several feet below full…until this storm arrived. The animals are wet, but they quickly move into the shelter of the barn during the heaviest rains. We learned […]

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Applying lime with a fertilizer cart

District staff recently applied 10 tons of pelletized lime to 5.6 acres of grass field at the Beavercreek Demonstration Farm. That is an application rate of about 1.78 tons/acre. We used a fertilizer cart from Wilbur Ellis to do this, because we wanted to see how this device might work […]

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Farmhouse bathroom repairs

Those of you who own or maintain a house know there is always something that needs to be done. In our case, the water heater started leaking early in August. The water heater is in the bathroom, and we began to notice some buckling of the linoleum flooring that was […]