If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!During the week of March 18-21 I spoke at the Legacy Seeds Cover Crop Meetings to over 150 people in three Wisconsin towns about cover crops. During each meeting I showed why folks should consider using cover crops (erosion control, […]
Broadcast Recording Available from National Cover Crops Conference
Folks, I was privileged to attend and also speak at this conference. Please take some time to look in on the many awesome presentations that were presented in Omaha. Dave Broadcast Recording Available from National Cover Crops Conference To meet some of today’s biggest challenges in agriculture, including rising food demand, a shrinking land […]
Cover Crops- It is Amazing how much interest there is these days!
It is amazing how much interest there is in cover cropping these days! Sarah Carlson from Practical Farmers of Iowa and I were discussing this fact in Omaha, NE earlier this week. To think that there would be a conference like we attended in Omaha was almost a “dream” when we were attending some of […]
Cover Crop Meetings Winter 2014
It’s been a while since I have posted on here as I have been quite busy speaking about cover crops at a number of venues. Over the Winter of 2014 I will be speaking at a number of conferences. If you are in the area of any of these meetings please stop by and introduce […]
More Fall Cover Crop Field Days Coming
This fall there are more cover crop field days to attend in Iowa and Wisconsin. For those in Iowa see http://practicalfarmers.org/blog/2013/fall-2013-cover-crop-field-days-scheduled In Wisconsin there are two field days: October 21, 2013 – 10:30am – Cover Crop Plot Tour Hosted by Legacy Seeds’ Kris Tessar and Ag Ventures Shawano Located at the farm of Paul […]
Badger Plot Cover Crop Research Site – Producer Day Schedule Announced
Join me with Wisconsin NRCS at the Badger Plot Cover Crop Research Site on October 2, 2013 @ Jeff and Jerry Kreuziger Farms near Clyman, WI. Sessions will run from 9:30-Noon or 1:00-3:30 CST. This looks to be a great day to learn more about cover crops and soil health in southern Wisconsin/northern Illinois regions. […]
Advancing Cover Crop Adoptions Research Agenda
Advancing Cover Crop Adoptions Research Agenda Sarah Carlson, Midwest Cover Crop Research Coordinator with Practical Farmers of Iowa and Ryan Stockwell, Agriculture Program Manager with the National Wildlife Federation have written an agenda that will help researching cover crops be more scientific over the next six to eight years. The research agenda is published […]
Fall Cover Crop Management
While in southern Minnesota in early September 2013 I was asked when a farmer should plow his cover crop field this fall because he needs the fields to be “black” this winter in preparation for next spring. I shuddered. There I was in a beautiful field of cover crops that are jump-starting some biology on […]
Cover Crop Field Day Set in Blooming Prairie, MN
Cover Crops will be the main topic of discussion on September 4, 2013 at a cover crop field day and meeting in Blooming Prairie, MN. I have the privilege of speaking at this event as we look at cover crops on prevented plant acres. We will also look at what cover crops work best in the […]
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