Lake City Experiment Station
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Folks visiting the Lake City Experiment Station can see a wide variety of important research. Everything from beef cattle, grazing work, potatoes, forage work with alfalfa and especially their cow-calf production research with regards to carcass quality.

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Grazing Gains
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Researchers at the Lake City Experiment Station are looking at supplementing cattle on pasture with ethanol by-products. The goal is to optimize gain using the forages at the station.

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Leading by Example
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The Michigan Agriculture Environmental Assurance Program or MAEAP, is a state-wide program sponsored the Michigan Department of Agriculture and roughly 20-30 more organizations. It involves passing system checks in farmstead, cropping and livestock. And the Lake City Experiment Station has passed all three.

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Thousands of Spuds to Choose From
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The Michigan potato industry has roughly eighty percent of its production going into potato chips. The rest is used for table stock and processing. At the Lake City Experiment Station, researchers are studying more than six and a half acres of spuds.

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