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 yourself to me; I’d love to hear your cover crop stories.
Here is a partial list of many of the meetings I will be speaking at:
January 7-8, 2014 – Southwest Ag Conference – Ridgetown, Ontario http://www.southwestagconference.ca/
January 9-10, 2014 – Mid-Ohio Growers Meeting Buckeye Event Center, Dalton, Ohio http://midohiogrowers.com/schedule
January 16-17, 2014 – National No-Till Conference –Springfield, IL http://www.no-tillfarmer.com/
January 18, 2014 – Corn Belt Cow-Calf Conference Ottumwa, Iowa “Using Cover Crops to Boost Profitability in Your Operation” and “Baleage—Making & Utilizing Higher Quality Hay” http://www.extension.iastate.edu/article/2014-cornbelt-cow-calf-conference-focuses-profitable-expansion
January 22, 2014 – Empire State Producers EXPO, Syracuse, New York “Can cover crops benefit vegetable fields? YES!” – http://cvp.cce.cornell.edu/event.php?id=53
January 28, 2014 – Conservation Cropping Seminar , Mendota, IL 2014Mendota Agenda Contact Marty McManus -visit www.ccswcd.com to register ($20)
February 6, 2014 – Wisconsin Corn/Soy Expo, Kalahari Conference Center, Wisconsin Dells https://www.cornsoyexpo.org/
February 18-19, 2014 – National Conference on Cover Crops and Soil Health – Harvesting the Potential ,Omaha, NE https://sites.google.com/a/swcs.org/2014-omaha-cover-crops-conference/keynote-and-breakout-descriptions
Thank you for all the information. We are in NE and would like to be able to meet you in IA on Jan 18th. 2014. We will see if our schedule we allow us. Thank you again!
Gabriela, Stop by and say hello if you can make it to Iowa! I’d love to meet you guys!
Dave,
my husband, Jake and I were so excited to meet you in IA last weekend. We are following your website since spring-summer 2013 and find it very educational. You even answered some of our questions last year, as well.
The new generation of farmers for sure will be more receptive to what you said in your presentation, we need to work with nature and for nature, while finding ways of being profitable – even if that means “to work” and move these animals daily with a back fence. I would like to send you a video of us moving cattle on Sudan grass last summer. We moved them in the paddock and out the paddock back in a sacrifice area (where we are making compost) every day, about 80 heads. No fuss, just peaceful working with nature and for nature. Cattle people hate moving cattle, but cattle love being moved, it’s in their instinct. We will keep coming back to your website and following your articles. God bless you!
Our Local FFA Alumni chapter is Interested In Building A Cover Crop Plot And Hosting A Field Day In 2015. Our Committee Is Interested Any Information That You Could Give Us.
Thank You
Hi Gabriela! It sure was a pleasure to meet you and Jake as well! I wish we could have stayed and talked more. Please send me some of your photos and/or videos…I’d love to share them with my readers. Your approach is right on! Keep in touch!
Hi Jennifer! Send me an e-mail at dave@plantcovercrops.com and give me details (location, etc…) and I’ll see what I can do to help! Dave