Catching up with the Neepawa 4-H Beef Club

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Published on Friday, July 15, 2016

By Cora Baker

Reporter, Neepawa 4-H Beef Club 

On Mar. 7, the Neepawa 4-H Beef Club had the privilege of meeting and receiving valuable information from Michele Claveau. Michele talked to us about being in the army since she was 14 years old. She told us about all the amazing places she has went to including; Denmark, Belgium, France, Afghanistan, New Zealand and many places all over Canada. Her dad was a major encouragement in letting her belong with the army. 

On April 30 at 2 pm, the Neepawa 4-H Beef Club had the chance to go to the Happy Rock Holsteins Dairy farm. The cool thing about their farm is they use robots for everything. Some examples are: when the calf is thirsty, it will walk up to the robot and the robot will scan its ear tag, it will tell how much milk the baby will get. Another is when the cow thinks she needs to get milked, she will walk through a gate which will read her ear tag to see the last time she was milked, if it will allow her to go through, she will walk up to the milk station and walk in. Then the robot will clean the utter and make sure there are no bugs or germs in the milk. After that, it will connect the suction tubes to her utter and get as much milk as allotted. Then after milking, it will seal up the utter so no milk will slip out. 

On May 28, at 9 a.m. the 4-H Beef and the Belles Beaux and Builders Club joined up to do Highway 5 clean-up for six kilometers. After all of the garbage picking, we had watermelon and went to the Eden Dump to dump off over 100 bags of garbage.

On June 4, at 1 p.m. we held our annual “Crash Day” and no, not with cars. We all met at de Koning’s farm and had our judging class, which was very fun.