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Energy a theme at annual ag tour Boucher said heating bills for the farm’s greenhouses are the chief expenditure. One of the reasons the operation is adding lettuce, he said, is because it is a high-demand item that can grow in lower temperatures.
“That is a huge savings in natural gas,” Boucher told the Globe in a phone interview. Agricultural efficiency also was cited during an overview of some of the federally funded research under way at another tour stop, the Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of Missouri’s Southwest Research Center near Mount Vernon. Monty Kerley, a professor of animal sciences with the University of Missouri, on Tuesday told members of the tour that the center has been studying feed efficiency among a herd of beef cattle. A more feed-efficient cow will require less feed than another but still gain weight, resulting in lower feed costs and in less waste. Ranchers could in turn breed those more feed-efficient cattle. Research at the center, for example, found that the most feed-efficient cow last year ate about $120 less in feed than the least efficient. At a time when farmers and ranchers face increasing costs for feed, land and fuel, those savings can be important, Kerley said. “Efficiency is a fairly timely topic,” he said. How does it work? The stove devised by the Youngblood family is designed to heat with any dry bio-mass bale, including baled cornstalks, fescue stubble, straw and hay. 
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