The choice of pack depends upon each individual farm’s needs. This system works best with wood shavings or chopped straw. The Composted Bedded Pack (CBP) requires the farmer to stirring once or twice a day with a tractor tractor-mounted rototiller. The pack grows to a depth of 5-6 feet by the end of one winter. The Deep Bedded Pack (DBP) uses fresh bedding daily to keep the pack dry and clean. Fay Benson provides the following information on the two types of bedded pack systems, with some pros and cons of each type and examples of one system in Vermont and one in New York. NYCO Winter Meeting Organizer and Cornell Cooperative Extension Small Dairy Specialist A. Participants are asked to bring a dish to pass at the potluck lunch. There is no cost or need to register to attend the NYCO winter meetings in January, February, and March. There may also be government assistance to help build such a barn.įarmers who have used bedded packs will be featured at the NY Certified Organic (NYCO) meeting on January 8, 2019, beginning at 10 AM, in Jordan Hall, 630 West North Street, Cornell AgriTech, Geneva, NY. As an option to winter spreading, farmers considering updating barns or building new facilities can consider a bedded pack barn system for manure storage and animal comfort. Small dairy farm operators in New York may soon be faced with the prohibition of winter spreading of manure by the State Department of Environmental Conservation. Courtesy of Fay Benson / Small Farm Quarterly. Bedded pack barns are one of the topics for presentation and discussion at the JanuNY Certified Organic meeting in Geneva, N.Y.

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