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No-till Cover
Crop Research Plot Field Day
September
23rd, 2008
Brian and Keith Berns farm:
Location: 3 miles south
and 2.5 miles west of Blue Hill, NE on Highway 281 or 14 miles north and
1.5 miles east of Red Cloud on Highway 281
Look at and learn about
potential no-till cover crops including lentils, oil seed radish, hybrid
brassicas, brassica mixes, mung beans, Ethiopian cabbage, barley, vetch, milo,
sudan grass, millets, soybeans, sunflowers, soybeans, dwarf essex rape, red
clover, alfalfa, and cocktail mixes of all of the above! This research plot is
also measuring the amount of moisture being used by each of the above crops.
CLICK HERE FOR A PLOT
LAYOUT AND WEEK BY WEEK PHOTOS OF THE GROWING PLOTS! |
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 Ray
Ward is president and co-owner of Ward
Laboratories, Inc. since 1983. He holds numerous memberships
in scientific and honorary academic societies and organizations. His
goals for agriculture and agronomy are to help production agriculture use
its resources as efficiently as possible, to provide information and data
for developing the best use of soil and water resources while maintaining
environmental quality, to be involved in “value-added” agriculture, and to
provide accurate laboratory data for managing production enterprises.
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8:00
a.m. Registration, Coffee, Donuts
9:00
a.m. Welcome and introductions
9:30
a.m. NRCS Equip Cover Crop Program
9:45
a.m. In The Field Learning
Concurrent
Sessions
(everyone
will attend both sessions)
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Site 1 Cover crop effects on
soil fertility and soil structure -
Dig in the soil with
Dr. Ray Ward of Ward Labs and see for yourself how cover crops can improve
your soil fertility and soil structure.
Dr. Ray Ward,
Owner, Ward Labs
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Site 2
– Cover Crop research plot tour - View 20 different crops in 25
different plots. Learn about the benefits and limitations of each
of this possible cover crops.
Brad Young,
Prairie State Seeds, Wausa, NE
Brian and Keith
Berns, No-till Farmers, Bladen
12:15 p.m. Free
Lunch in the field
1:00 p.m.
Cover crops for forage and rotational grazing
Sponsored in part by:
 
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No-till
on the Plains, Inc. would like to thank Brian and Keith Berns for providing
their
farm as the site for the Cover Crop Research Plot.