Denis Turner started backgrounding heifers for seasonal dairy farms in southwest Missouri after participating in the Wright County Heifer Development Project through the University of Missouri Extension in 1994.
"The purpose for the demonstration was to show that we could use rotational intensive grazing with replacement animals, use minimal grain supplementation and still develop them properly," Turner said. "The study proved this was possible."
Later some of the dairy farms that cooperated in the demonstration approached Turner about developing heifers for them.
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