Breakfast will be served rain or shine! A menu of scrambled eggs with ham, pancakes, cheese, applesauce, frozen custard with strawberries or honey fudge topping, milk, juice, and coffee.
Entertainment begins at 7:30AM with "Uncle" Ozzie playing the guitar, trumpet, trombone, banjo, and singing, etc. Face painting sponsored by Wisconsin Farmers Union summer camp counselors and calves to pet.
There will be plenty of educational displays on the grounds, including Science Learning Stations. A cow with a surgiclly placed opening that allows you to see inside her rumen; cows being milked, as seen via a video camera; many by product feeds from food, fiber and fuel industries that cows are able to consume, thus reducing the amount of waste going into landfills and keeping the price of milk lower; special chambers used to measure the gases coming from cows.
Door prizes will be drawn every 30 minutes.
Sign up to win two - $50 gift certificates, donated by Wyttenbach Meats, Prairie du Sac.
Bus Shuttles are strongly encouraged. There is limited parking at the farm so bus shuttles will run from Badgerland Financial, Schwarz Insurance, and Culver's on Buiness Hwy 12 and 78, north of Prairie du Sac. Shuttles will start about 7AM with the last return shuttle at noon.
Directions: From Baraboo, take Hwy 12 south - east on Business 12 (Co.Z) north on Hwy 78 about 1.7 miles. Use next driveway past enterance sign.
Saturday Jun 13, 2015
7:00 AM - 11:00 AM CDT
June 13, 2015
7AM - 11AM
U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center
S8822 Sunset Drive
Prairie du Sac, WI 53578
(off Hwy 78)
Tickets are $6 for adults
$3 for children ages 7-12
Free for those 6 and under
Sandi Knuth 608-524-1873