Event Details
Date
November 14, 2013
Time
9:15am-3:30pm
Location
USDA-NRCS Big Flats Plant Materials Center
3266 Route 352
Big Flats, NY 14814
Cost
This event is free.
Host
Cover Cropping for Soil Health, Nutrient Management and Water Quality
November 14, 2013Cover Crop Workshop and Tour 11/14/13 Register Here
Registration @ Big Flats PMC 9:15 am-9:45 am
Tour of cover crop plots and zone-builder demo 9:45 am-11:45 am
Travel to American Legion Hall (45 Olcott Rd S, Big Flats NY) 11:45 am-12:00 pm
Lunch (optional rainfall simulator demo) 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
Presenters 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Panel discussion with PA. No-till Alliance (optional) 4:00 pm-
PRESENTERS:
Dave Shearing- Consultant, CCA- Western Crop Management Association and Fisher Welles- Crop Farmer Chemung Co. (3100 acres) Discussion of benefits of zone-builder, comparisons between conventional, no-till and zone-builder on years with drought and excessive precipitation and demonstration of zone-builder.
Paul Salon- USDA-NRCS, Plant Materials Specialist- Tour of cover crop demonstration plots at Big Flats PMC, which includes a time of planting demo with over 250 plots (species, varieties or mixes); some seeded at several seeding dates.
Chris Houser- Penn State Extension, CIG grant 3-way interseeder demonstration results in corn and soybeans.
Aaron Ristow- Agriculture Coordinator, Upper Susquehanna Coalition (USC); Cover Cropping within the Chesapeake Bay TMDL Framework.
Dale Gates- USDA-NRCS, Resource Conservationist- Updated Cover Crop Specification for New York.
Quirine Ketterings- Cornell University Dept. of Animal Science, Associate Professor, Nutrient Management Spear Program; Winter-Forage Small Grains to Boost Feed Supply: From Cover Crop to Double Crop, results from 2013 trials.
Charlie White- Extension Specialist, Penn State University, Cover crop mixtures: How many species and in what combination to achieve desired goals.
Dave Mclaughlin- Vice President PA No-Till Alliance, (Dairy and Crop Farmer, Perry Co., Pa.), and Jim Hershey- President and founding member of PA No-Till Alliance (Raises hogs, broilers and crops in Lancaster County, PA) and Joel Meyers (Crop Farmer, Centre Co. Pa., no-till and soil health consultant, and former State Agronomist USDA-NRCS), Introduction to the Alliance, how to form and maintain farmer networks.
Panel Discussion with Dave Mclaughlin, Jim Hershey, and Joel Meyers of the PA. No-till Alliance.
4.0 CCA credits available
