6 Pond 7 Pond 8 Fingerling Ponds Baxter Land Co. Each pond is 14.0 surface acres with gravel levees. Electric paddlewheels provide aeration. Grass carp are stocked when necessary to control nuisance aquatic vegetation. Bird predation is not a problem with these ponds and mortalities attributed to predation are negligible.
Water quality is monitored weekly for ammonia, pH and nitrite.
A minimum of 60 ppm chlorides is preferred. Paddlewheels are turned on when dissolved oxygen drops to 4 ppm. The farm is located in northeast Arkansas approximately 2 miles west of Waldenburg. This pond is 8.75 surface acres with gravel levees and was reworked during the summer of 1997 and filled in the fall. Grass carp were stocked to control Pithophora.