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


Managing Soil Function

Tuesday, July 16 | 9:30am-1:30pm

Slater, Iowa

Hosted by Polk SWCD. They will view soils using Soil Pits under different management practices including no-till row crop, Kernza, Prairie and Alfalfa.   

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Grazing and Cover Crop Field Day

Tuesday, July 16 | 5pm-7pm

Buffalo Center, Iowa

Located at Jack Smith Farm in Buffalo Center.

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Grundy County Workshop: Biologicals, the Hot Topic

Thursday, July 18 | 9am-12pm

Grundy Center, Iowa

Hosted by Chris & Shannon Gaesser of GX Agriculture. Come see and discuss evaluating crop benefits and financial returns on biological products, making compost extract and best practices for storing, how to apply biological products, including at planting and foliar application, and fitting biological products into a crop management plan.

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Growing Food for Habitat: Supporting Pollinators and Beneficial Insects in a Community Garden

Saturday, July 20 | 10am-12pm

Waterloo, Iowa

Hosted by Kamyar Enshayan with Sarah Nizzi, a speaker from Xerces Society. Come see and discuss helping communities through urban gardening and sourcing local food, creating pollinator and beneficial insect habitat in limited and urban spaces, improving urban soil quality through sustainable practices, such as composting, pesticide-free urban garden management, and using cover crops in urban farming for extended soil and insect support.

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Improving Soil Through Nitrogen Reduction and Conservation Practices

Wednesday, July 24 | 2pm-4pm

Osage, Iowa

Hosted by Alec & Rachel Amundson. Come see and discuss relay intercropping cereal rye and soybeans, no-till corn and soybean production with covers, use of a bioreactor and the Conservation Reserve Program. fixing nitrogen by interseeding red clover into small grains, results of a nitrogen reduction on-farm research project through PFI’s Cooperators’ Program, and using cover crops to improve water quality in the Rock Creek Watershed

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Growing Opportunity: Season Extension, Organic Production and Scaling Up at Bridgewater Farm

Sunday, July 28 | 4pm-7pm

Bridgewater, Iowa

Hosted by Dale Raasch of Bridgewater Farm. Come see and discuss the potential of season extension to increase production and profit with tomatoes, spinach, greens and (new in 2024!) day-neutral strawberries, pest management through crop diversity, multiple plantings and higher tolerance to avoid spraying and save on labor. companion planting and interplanting to increase diversity and maximize production, and equipment to increase efficiency and capacity.

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