Soil Health Field Day along the shores of Lake Poygan

Soil Health Field Day along the shores of Lake Poygan – Sept. 6th, 2018

Soil Health Field Day-Waushara County

Along the shores of Lake Poygan

Thursday, September 6th, 2018 from 10am to 2pm

Bruce and Sandy Lind operate a 400-acre cash grain farm along the shores of Lake Poygan. The farm transitioned to no-till in 2012, and they began experimenting with incorporating cover crops in 2015. Bruce built a custom 12 row inter-seeder toolbar in 2017 that allows him to incorporate covers into his corn at the V3-V6 stage. This year they began experimenting with surface applied manure from a neighboring dairy spread over cover crops as another tool to help build soil health. Event is being hosted by NRCS. See the event flyer for more information.

Please RSVP by Saturday September 1st to: Matt Utecht- 920-407-1195 or matthewutecht@yahoo.com

Event Schedule

10:00am

Soil Health Demonstration: NRCS Rainfall Simulator
No-Till System Equipment Overview: No-Till Corn Planter Setup, Custom Built Inter-seeder, Great Plains No-Till Drill
Presentation: Dan Punke- Farm Manager at Miltrim Farms- Athens, WI: 1800 cow dairy, 1000 acres of no-till, 1000 acres of reduced tillage, 2400 acres of cover crop in 2018

11:30am

Lunch: Provided by Matt Utecht- Alforex and Legend Seed, and Geno Brueggen- Alforex Seed
Cover Crop Presentation: Doug Bastian-Alforex Seed, Matt Utecht-Alforex and Legend Seeds
Cover Crop Field Demonstration Plots: Three field scale plots with varying seed mixes were planted following harvest of winter wheat
Inter-seeded Corn and Soybean Fields: Several fields were inter-seeded mid-June into V3-V6 corn and at a 12” bean height.
Slurry Seeded cover crop after winter wheat: A cover crop was no-till drilled into wheat stubble, with manure surface applied over the top of the planted covers.