Batesville Station

Day to Day The Batesville Station is nestled between beautiful rolling hills, Ozark forests and tranquil meadows. On this page, you can enjoy a few scenes from the Station in the course of our daily operations. All images enlarge by clicking on them.

	◄ Baby calves in spring New arrivals waiting to be processed ►
	◄ Jeff Earls planting oak seedlings for an acorn study Planting oak seedlings ►
	◄ Building forms to put in water run off collection equipment. Mike McGowan and Gerald Dry lay out plots for planting short leaf pines for a new forestry project ►
	◄ Preparing seed beds for winter wheat Overseeding clover into Ky31 Fescue ►
	◄ Burning bermuda grass fields early March, 2006 for weed control Levee around no till wheat treatment plot to help collect run-off data ►
	◄ Levee to prevent water from running into no till plot Spreading lime prior to seeding wheat pasture ►
	◄ Loading pine saw logs from Timber harvest spring 2006 De-limber de-limbing trees ►
	◄ Wayne Coblentz and Rebecca Norman measuring round bales for a hay storage study Over-seeding Bermuda grass pasture with wheat for winter grazing ►
	◄ Raking Bermuda grass hay Tom Hess applies an ear tag during processing. Todd Coles does the banding while Tim Smith works the chute ►
	◄ Don Hubbell gives a tour. Work area inside the main cattle working barn. Program Assistant Tom Hess weighs cattle on wheat rye pastures ►
	◄ Workers constructing additional high tensile electric fencing in the stocker receiving pens Calves sorted and ready to go to small grain pastures ►
	◄ Weighing and de-worming cattle on the north area fescue pastures Corralling cattle for de-worming and weighing ►
	◄ Waugh Mountain forestry tract, a pine reforestation area, bred heifers stand in the foreground Fall calving cows in the panhandle area on fescue research ►
	◄ Workers heading out to gather cattle on horseback Wayne Coblentz, Johnny Gunsaulis and Henry Headly plant small grains plots for evaluation ►
Calves on endophyte infected Kentucky 31 fescue trying to cool off from the effects of the fescue toxin in mid-April.	Research trials are an ongoing part of the day to day activities at the Batesville Station. These pictures show some behavior modifications of novel fescues verses the old endophyte infected fescues. Notice the left image where the calves have muddied the ground in an effort to cool themselves, while the calves on the right seem comfortable.	Calves on Novel endophyte infected MaxQ fescue do not show signs of fescue toxins.
	◄ Dr. Kenneth Harrison supervising clean till planting, fall 2003 Light disk in the foreground, planting clean till in the background ►