Lafayette Ag Stewardship Alliance to host field day at four farm sites

Sept. 21, 2020

Contact: Steven Schauer
Dairy Strong Sustainability Alliance
(920) 471-9896 | sschauer@voiceofmilk.com

Lafayette Ag Stewardship Alliance

to host field day at four farm sites

Sept. 30 event will focus on cover crops, manure application

DARLINGTON, Wis. — Lafayette Ag Stewardship Alliance will host a field day event on Sept. 30 to demonstrate best conservation practices with cover crops and manure application at four farm sites.

The farmer-led watershed conservation group is inviting agricultural professionals and residents to learn more about how cover crops interact with manure application practices. The farms are in the Darlington and Cuba City areas:

• Mike Berget (Berget Family Farms) will discuss his wheat crop with low-disturbance manure injection and summer seeded cover crops in a field a half mile west of his farm at 8692 County Road M in Darlington.
• Steve Carpenter (Redrock View Farms) will discuss his wheat crop with low-disturbance manure injection and summer seeded alfalfa in a field a half mile west of his farm at 10548 Palmer Road in Darlington.
• Jim DiGangi (Darlington Ridge Farms) will discuss his rye crop with surface-applied solid manure and summer seeded Sorghum-Sudan grass in a field at Twin Bridge and Hilldale roads in Cuba City.
• Dan Kamps (Kamps Farms) will discuss corn for grain and winter beef applied manure and early spring seeded cover crops in a field at Highway 81 and Rowesville Road in Darlington.

For safety from coronavirus, groups of fewer than 10 people will be allowed per station with 6-foot physical distancing. Masks are recommended and will be provided.

MEDIA

News reporters wanting help connecting with farmers at the event should contact Steven Schauer, communications specialist at the Dairy Strong Sustainability Alliance, (920) 471-9896 or sschauer@voiceofmilk.com.

IF YOU GO

When: 12-3 p.m. Sept. 30
Where: Four farm fields in Darlington and Cuba City (addresses above)
Cost: Free and no registration required

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About Lafayette Ag Stewardship Alliance:

Lafayette Ag Stewardship Alliance is a farmer-led non-profit organization with a vision of a community where farmers and friends of agriculture work together to protect and improve water quality and the environment. The group is based in Lafayette County in southwestern Wisconsin. More information:  www.lafayetteagstewardship.org .

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