Below is a listing of upcoming conservation field days around the state. For a complete listing of future conservation field days, click here.


Upcoming Field Days


Establishing and Harvesting Prairie Field Day

Tuesday, August 20 | 5:30pm-7:30pm

Stockton, Iowa

Located at Bryan Siever’s Farm.

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Scaling Up Custom Cover Crop Application

Friday, August 23 | 10am-12pm

Logan, Iowa

Hosted by Mike & Kara Dickinson and Mark Unruh. Come see and discuss starting a cover crop seeding business, tips for scaling up cover crop seeding application, a custom-built rolling basket harrow air seeder, a teff grass-oat-alfalfa cover crop mix in the field, nutrient management using chicken litter and livestock grazing, and managing cover crops in drought conditions.

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Cover Crop Field Day

Tuesday, August 27 | 10am-12pm

Portsmouth, Iowa

Located at Bill Hammitt's Farm.

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Reducing Nitrogen with Rotational Cover Cropping and Biologic Additions

Friday, August 30 | 4pm-6pm

Marengo, Iowa

Hosted by Ross McCaw of McCaw Custom Farms. Come see and discuss rotational cover crop practices using a three-year crop rotation of corn, soybean and seed rye, planting summer grazing crops after cereal rye for nitrogen fixation, nitrogen reduction trials through PFI’s Cooperators’ Program, adding compost extract or other biologics to increase soil health and quality, alternating planting times in a three-year cycle for larger harvest yields, and in-field testing of nitrogen and nitrate load using a calcium-chloride test kit.

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