Bazile Groundwater Management Area Project and Bow Creek Watershed Project are teaming up with Junior Pfanstiel to host a Regenerative Ag Field Day on Tuesday, July 8, from 10 a.m. until 12 noon. The field is north on 552 Avenue from Highway 20 (west of McLean turn).
The project involves planting green 4 rows of corn 10 feet wide and leaving 10 feet of cover crops (regen strips) throughout the field. The regen strips will then be roller crimped in the whole field. This process will provide weed control and fertility to the corn. A warm season diverse cover mix will then be drilled into the regen strips. Later in the season, a cool season diverse cover mix will be established. Strips will be rotationally grazed down to 50% before moving to the next one.
During this event, they plan to have the following discussions: Junior Pfanstiel, Outside the Box Agronomy, LLC, will talk about his objective and thought process in the planning, the why, and just what his expectations are. Nathan Choat of Green Cover Crops will speak directly on the planned mixes that were chosen.
Ben Beckman, UNL Livestock Extension Educator, will talk about the mixes and what each mix brings to the prescribed grazing and their benefits.
Caro Cordova, Statewide Soil Health Specialist and UNL Assistant Professor, will talk about the benefits and soil health implementations, discuss the root pit and what it means, and will have the biomass analysis available to discuss how it ties into the entire soil health complex.
Amy Timmerman, UNL Cropping Extension Educator, will be on hand to demonstrate a water infiltration kit and how it impacts your soil health and potential plant yield.
For the established cover crops, they will have a root pit opened to see just how far down the roots were established prior to being crimped! They will also be showcasing Junior’s equipment (crimper, drill and interseeder highboy).
Lunch will be available afterwards at the newly opened restaurant, The Breakroom, in Randolph (six miles east of the field location), where the food is ALL locally grown!
Register at: https:// forms. gle/8BkwAsCDn1q7TEFCA
