Hear from other farmers about the good, the bad, and the ugly of soil health and other conservation practices.
Event date: February 16th, 2022
Location: Fin N’ Feather Showboats (22 W Main St, Winneconne, WI 54986)
Time: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm (*special morning session begins at 9am)
Keynote Speaker: Keith Berns, Co-Owner Green Cover Seed, Bladen, NE
Keith will present on the seven things he has learned about cover crops.
Agenda Topics: Soil Health Practices – how to get started, planting methods and residue management (no-till, cover crops, etc), farm economics, manure management, equipment set-up and other considerations, and where to find/who to contact for farmer resources.
Event Registration
Roundtable Registration: Includes refreshments, hot lunch buffet, and drink ticket for networking hour.
- Farmers and Landowners: $5 per person
- County and agency staff: $25 per person
Breakfast with Keith Berns: Includes continental breakfast with the keynote speaker prior to the roundtable. Registration limited to 30 people. This special morning session is available for an additional $8 registration add-on.
Advance registration required. Contact Korin Doering, (920)851-0948 or korin@fwwa.org with questions. Maximum number of participants is 125.
Thanks to generous donations from event sponsors and funding from the GLRI program, we are able to offset event costs to keep registration fees low. Please scroll down to check out our event sponsors.
Event Schedule
2022 Farmer Roundtable: 10:00am – 4:00pm
Included with your roundtable registration:
- Keynote Speaker Presentation from Keith Berns
- Farmer Panel
- Hot Lunch Buffet
- Two Breakout Sessions
- Morning and afternoon coffee and refreshment breaks
- Exhibit booths
- Networking Happy Hour (one drink ticket included)
Breakfast with Keith Berns*: 9:00am – 9:50am
*Special morning session requires $8 add-on fee.
Keynote Speaker – Keith Berns
Keith Berns combines over 20 years of no-till farming with 10 years of teaching Agriculture and Computers. In addition to no-tilling 2,000 acres of irrigated and dryland corn, soybeans, rye, triticale, peas, sunflowers, and buckwheat in South Central Nebraska, he also co-owns and operates Green Cover Seed, one of the major cover crop seed providers and educators in the United States. Through Green Cover Seed, Keith has experimented with over 100 different cover crop types and hundreds of mixes planted into various situations and has learned a great deal about cover crop growth, nitrogen fixation, moisture usage, and grazing utilization of cover crops. Keith was honored by the White House as a 2016 Champion of Change for Sustainable and Climate-Smart Agriculture. Keith also developed the SmartMix CalculatorTM one of the most widely used cover crop selection tools on the internet. Keith has a Masters Degree in Agricultural Education from the University of Nebraska and teaches on cover crops and soil health more than 30 times per year to various groups and audiences. Keith also was appointed by Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts to be part of the Nebraska Healthy Soils Task Force and had the privilege of serving as the chairman.
Event Sponsors and Exhibitors
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Event Partners
This event is being organized and hosted by the Winnebago Waterways Ag Outreach Workgroup – a collaborative initiative by multiple partners and farmers working to increase farmer adoption of soil conservation practices in the Winnebago Waterways Recovery Area and the Upper Fox and Wolf River Basin.
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Want to learn more about other conservation work in the Basin? Check out these resources:
Contact us: Winnebago Waterways Director: Korin Doering, (920)851-0948 or korin@fwwa.org
