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TABLE 2 
BUILDING ANALYSIS 
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amount 
upon Inputs - farm boundaries 
taliza- - photographs 
~ definitions of terms and photographic examples. 
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Select Farmsteads*— 
Select Livestock 
Buildings 
-Active or Inactive? 
(Use Great Care 
Inactive 
Decide on Farm Type 
In Order Below 
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Others? 
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All barns with milkhouse and some corn and 
grain are fluid dairy. 
_ All pole type barns * If joined to barn with milkhouse 
without milkhouse.v treat as dairy housing for young 
N. cattle and/or steers. 
Look for long and if either all hay and pasture, or 
— low hog barn with with silos and joined to semi-open 
storage bins conventional barn treat as steer. 
Conventional barn with pole shelter and feed area or 
- adjacent pasture consider as steer - note: a silo is 
usually present. 
Look for poultry barn, usually large, long, narrow and 
_ often in groups. Beware confusion with hog barns. Some 
times in converted conventional barns that may appear 
inactive. (Not part of the method*) 
Conventional barn with manure piles, some cropland, treat 
_ as mixed beef with 1/3 each being cows, calves, and year 
lings. If "L" shaped barn look for smaller manure piles 
away from major manure concentration - this could indicate 
hogs. 
Conventional barn with manure, pasture markings from 
~ barn, less than ten per cent cropped land, consider as 
cow-calf. 
_ Near city barns that contain cattle will probably 
contain steers, and may not likely be full. Beware. 
For areas in 'dairy' on the Crop Triangle look over the 
last three barn types for signs that milk cans are put out, 
look for small outhouse sized structures near the barn 
and accessible to the road. The farm may be an 
industrial dairy farm.