2022 Lower Fox River Farmer Roundtable

The Economics of Carbon

Thursday, February 17, 2022

10:00am – 4:00pm

**NEW LOCATION THIS YEAR!**

Van Abel’s of Hollandtown, Kaukauna

Registration is FREE for farmers and $25 for conservation and agronomy staff

Thanks to generous donations from event sponsors and funding from the GLRI program, we are able to offer the event without cost to farmers and landowners and at a reduced cost to conservation and agronomy staff.

Keynote Speaker: Keith Berns, Co-Owner Green Cover Seed, Bladen, NE

Event purpose: Opportunity for farmers to learn from other farmers about their challenges and successes in implementing conservation soil health practices here in the Lower Fox River watershed.

Agenda Includes a Variety of Informational Topics on Soil Health Practices and Resources for Farming in the Lower Fox:

  • Lessons learned from planting green

  • Equipment set-up and other considerations for no-till

  • Low disturbance manure injection

  • Successing in interseeding

  • New cover crop species

  • Update on local roller crimper rye to suppress water hemp and white mold study

  • Grass baleage trial results

  • Where to find/who to contact for farmer resources

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 2,500 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.

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