Contact
Paul Salon
News: USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Cayuga County Soil and Water Conservation District and Cayuga County Cooperative Extension
607-562-8404
paul.salon@ny.usda.gov
or
Jason Cuddeback 315-252-4171
Farmer Soil Health and Conservation Cropping System Workshop
A meeting for farmers and agency personnel to get an overview about how conservation practices can improve soil health and to get the farmers perspecitve on why they choose to farm with conservation farming systems
Farmer Meeting Agenda Steve Cuddeback Farm
4730 State Route 38A, Skaneateles, NY 13151
4:00 pm – 9:00 pm
4:00 – 4:45– Food, networking, table tops i/e. soil health lab Bianca, SWCD, Extension, NRCS others
4:45 - 5:00 Introductions
5:00 – 5:20 Steve Cuddeback, Host Farm Welcome and farm description.
5:20 – 6:00 – David Lamm- NRCS, Conservation Agronomist, Soil Health Team Leader, National Technology Center-East Region, Soil health demonstration and how different management systems influence soil function.
6:00 – 6:30 David Brandt- Farmer from Ohio 900 acres of continuous no-till since 1971, corn, soyeans wheat, since 1971, cover cropping in 1978 cereal rye, Austrian winter pea, oilseed radish and hairy vetch among other diverse cover crop mixes.
6:0 – 7:30 Farmer panel
Don Branton (zone-till emphasis) Klass Martens (cover cropping emphasis), Steve Nemec (conservation cropping systems) All can give brief history and description of farm and evolution of conservation planting and cover crops with emphasis on topic in parenthesis 20 minutes each.
7:30 – 7:45 Steve Cuddeback progression of farming practices from conventional to no-till and cover cropping.
7:45 - 9:00 Machinery demos including cover crop no-till planting, Aerway, zone till equipment explanation by Steve Cuddeback and dealers and others. View cover crop mixes recently planted.
Venders: Cazenovia Equipment-Apex system, *Growers Nutrient Solutions, *Monroe Tractor
*Possible venders
Machinery: 6-row JD no-till corn planter w/ liquid injection system, 6-row Unverferth zone builder w/ liquid injection, 15ft. 15in row no-till soybean drill w/ liquid injection, 15ft. 7.5in no-till grain drill, Pottinger trailed disc harrow, Aerway seeder or * manure injection.
*Possible machinery