Register by 4:00 p.m., on Monday, August 5, 2019, for a Cover Crop Workshop to be held Thursday, August 8, beginning at 10:00 a.m. Lunch will be provided at noon. The location is the Bill Holesinger farm, a quarter mile north of the Garden Plain and Frog Pond Roads intersection, east of Frog Pond Road. Look for signs. Call the Whiteside County Soil and Water Conservation Office at 815-772-2124, extension 3.
Sponsors are Bill Holesinger-Ag Spectrum and Whiteside County Soil and Water Conservation District Education Foundation.
The workshop will discuss the Ag Spectrum system approach. Topics of discussion include
- no till corn on corn with cover crops
- cover crop types
- benefits
- cover crop calculator use
- cover crop prescriptions
- methods and timing to apply cover crops
- termination of cover crops.