When it comes to the overall management of their hog
\noperation\u2014and the manure management aspects in particular
\n\u2014Henry Moore III says they work to take care of those details,
\nusing Best Management Practices as guiding principles. \u201cIt\u2019s a good
\nbenchmark for our operation,\u201d says Moore, president of
\nfamily-owned Bobcat Farms.
\nAlong with colleague Alan Williams, Moore oversees a family
\npartnership consisting of a 5,000 sow-to-wean farm, an
\n8,800-head gilt development facility, and\u2014just to round things
\nout\u2014a 150-head Angus cow\/calf operation near the town of Clinton, North Carolina. From the start, Moore and Williams have taken to managing
\nBobcat Farms with a high degree of professionalism\u2014and
\ntechnology. They opt to utilize PDAs and PCs, rather than pad and
\npencil, for record keeping. Utilizing the manure is a great fit for them. In addition to the
\nwater aspect of the manure that is beneficial to the land in the
\nsummer, the contents of the manure, especially the nitrogen, are
\nall beneficial to the forage they grow for their cattle. \u201cAnd we\u2019re
\nlucky in that we have plenty of land for applying manure,\u201d adds
\nMoore. Of their 500 acres, 350 acres of it is used for their cattle
\nprogram. What they have in place now is a manure model that
\nworks for them, notes Moore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When it comes to the overall management of their hog operation\u2014and the manure management aspects in particular \u2014Henry Moore III says they work to take care of those details, using Best Management Practices as guiding principles. \u201cIt\u2019s a good benchmark for our operation,\u201d says Moore, president of family-owned Bobcat Farms. Along with colleague Alan Williams, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[930],"tags":[8882,10871,3965,19644,562,20007,105,7781,13370,355,6943,48,169,258,10858,187,24321,15486,16262,9472,2387,104,471,10101,4644,20911,1252,69,2481],"class_list":["post-4648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-production","tag-al","tag-apply","tag-content","tag-dd","tag-farms","tag-gh","tag-gilt","tag-gilt-development","tag-ken","tag-lagoon","tag-land-application-rates","tag-management","tag-manure","tag-manure-management","tag-mark","tag-nitrogen","tag-partners","tag-pcs","tag-pl","tag-president","tag-record-keeping","tag-sow","tag-spreading","tag-start","tag-summer","tag-t","tag-technology","tag-water","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}