Intermediate wheatgrass and Cover Crop Fall Field Day

All invited to see, ask and learn.

Lunch provided

Nov 1 -- 10-2 pm

Cows will be on the pasture while you taste some intermediate wheatgrass cookie! Come and join us!!

 

Kellogg Biological Station-Hickory Corners

3700 E Gull Lake Dr,

Hickory Corners, MI 49060 (look for Field Day signs when you get close)

November 1, 10-2 pm

Event is FREE and lunch is included!!

 

The annual KBS Cover Crop Field day offers a chance to see the crops in the field and talk to the researchers about their research.

 

NOTE:  For those interested in the Intermediate wheatgrass!  We will be taking the cows to pasture to see how they like the intermediate wheatgrass to graze. Kernza cookies will be served. See how the crop is valuable to 1. Feed cows. 2. Provide great flour 3. Holds soil in place

 

The field day will be from 10-12 with lunch following, and is free to attend. Optional tours to other fields / plots will be available after lunch.

 

Here is the plan for the WHOLE Field Crop Field Day on Nov 1… Join the group to see it all!!

 

• Inter-seeded Cover Crops in Grain Corn – Karen Renner / Sasha Kravchenko / Aaron Brooker
• Cereal Rye and Hairy Vetch cover crops prior to organic vegetable crops – Dan Brainard
• Intermediate wheatgrass (Kernza) as a grain and forage crop – Vicki Morrone
• Red clover frost seeded into wheat  - Dean Baas / Brook Wilke
• Cover crop species demonstration plot – Dean Baas
• Winter cereal forages following corn silage  - Brook Wilke
• Winter Barley trials including double crop system with winter barley and soybeans – Manni Singh / Dean Baas / Brook Wilke
• MSU cover crop variety trial – Kim Cassida
• Walking tour of annual forage crops being grown to complement a rotational grazing system based on perennial forages, and field scale cover crop

 

 

Vicki Morrone

Organic Farming Specialist

Center for Regional Food Systems at Michigan State University

480 Wilson Rd

East Lansing, MI 48824

517-282-3557 (cell)

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www.MichiganOrganic.msu.edu

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