The field day will highlight 20 cover crop species and how they can be incorporated into a farming operation or used for fall grazing. Other topics include the benefits and challenges of cover crops, forage sorghum and grazing mixtures and the results of the timing of seeding and the rate of rye and camelina seeded into standing soybeans.
The field day also includes an opportunity to view interseeding equipment. Participants will visit the field research and demonstration plots near Hickson, N.D., by bus. Stops include a research area with cover crop interseeded into corn and a research site investigating the effect of fall-seeded cover crops on the currently grown corn and sugar beet crops. After lunch, researchers will present results of interseeding camelina and pennycress in corn and soybeans.
The program will conclude with a panel discussion, which will include a question-and-answer session. Lunch will be provided. Registration is required and can be completed at this link. For more information visit www.cropsyscap.org. The event is part of the outreach effort associated with a National Institute of Food and Agriculture grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.