All members along with their family are invited to attend. Members are asked to bring a covered dish. You may bring one guest to the steak dinner. At Buck Island Ranch, we will view and discuss the water quality stocking rate densities research project along with some of the other projects that are being conducted on the ranch. Cattle still receive some supplemental feed, but not to the extent of a conventional dairy.
Grazing is the predominant feed source.
Deer Run Ranch has been operating under MIG system for 12 years. MIG is a concept that has been prevalent in New Zealand for many years but is only in its infancy in the United States. Deer Run Ranch is truly an innovator of this concept in Florida. A former graduate student of theDepartment of Entomology and Nematology and his wife are doing some work on yellow jackets this summer. In addition, they are able to use the surplus yellow jackets as a means to finance the project, since they can sell them to a company for the production of desensitization shots for hyper allergic people.