Keeping your soil covered from planning to planting
Come to a cover crops field day to learn more about extending cover in your rotation. We'll cover planting equipment, interseeding cover crops into soybeans, drilling into oats, troubleshooting challenges, terminating and grazing cover crops, species selection, root structure observations, cost-share programs, and rotating cash crops like winter camelina and oats.
We'll follow the event with a great dinner from Heimstead food truck and a beef raffle.
Presenters:
- Steve Lawler, Martin Larsen, and Jason or Randy Welter, local farmers
- Mary Nesberg, Bailey Tangen, Liz Stahl, UMN Extension
- Theresa Pedretti, Albert Lea Seed
- Shona Langseth, Olmsted Soil Water Conservation District
- Matt Leavitt, UMN Forever Green Initiative
- Rita Young, Driftless Area Agriculture Alliance
- Richard Rohrer, Minnesota Soil Health Coalition
- Greg Klinger, Minnesota Agricultural Water Quality Certification Program
Cost
Free
Registration
Directions to the site will be sent after registration.
Accommodations
University of Minnesota Extension is committed to providing equal opportunity for participation in all programs, services and activities. To request accommodations for persons with disabilities, reach out to the event contact two weeks before the start of the event. Requests received after this date will be honored whenever possible.
Language
This offering is delivered in English. Interpreter services may be available with an advance request.