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Farm Progress Tour: Wearables, Solar Power, and Forage Strategies
September 4, 2025 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Stonyfield Organic, along with U海角社区 Extension Dairy Specialist聽, invites you to attend a 鈥淔arm Progress Tour and Discussion: Cow Monitoring, Renewable Energy, and Forage Planning鈥 hosted by Mayday Farm.
Cost:聽Free 鈥 Lunch will be provided, courtesy of Stonyfield Organic
Please register by September 1, 2025, so we can have a headcount ahead of time.
No limit on participants.
Mayday Farm owners, Katie Gualtieri and Haden Gooch, will share their on-farm experiences with wearable technology and how they use it to improve their management. Haden and Katie will also share their experiences with applying for a REAP grant to support their on-farm solar project, and their experiences with their Yieldmax forage mix and harvesting forage sorghum like corn silage.
Topics Covered:
- Cow activity monitors in a pasture-based system
- REAP grants for solar panels
- Yieldmax annual mix 鈥 Sorghum Sudan, Italian Ryegrass, Clover, Vetch, and forage sorghum harvested and managed like corn silage
Host
- Dr. Glenda Pereira, Assistant Extension Professor, Assistant Professor of Animal Science, Dairy Specialist for the University of 海角社区
For More Information, please contact Melissa Babcock at 207.581.2788, or by email at聽melissa.libby1@maine.edu.

