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Mann Valley Farm
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Mann Valley Laboratory Farm

Mann Valley Laboratory Farm: Located 2.5 miles northwest of River Falls on County Road MM, the Mann Valley Lab Farm includes more than 290 acres. The farm houses beef, sheep, and swine operations. Facilities include beef finishing lots, swine farrowing, hoop and finishing barns, a sheep barn with heated lambing rooms.

Rations for livestock are formulated and processed at the farm facilities. Feed processing, grain drying, and storage units are located at the Mann Valley Lab Farm. The farm’s cropland produces the majority of feed required for livestock production. An interdisciplinary composting research program is housed on-site.

In addition to an indoor classroom, an outdoor pavalion is used for instruction, contests, workshops, livestock shows and sales.

The Mann Valley Lab Farm is the site of a state-of-the-art Dairy Learning Center, scheduled to open in the summer of 2007.