PFI: Measuring and Interpreting Soil Health Benefits
Will Cannon and his wife, Cassie, farm 1,000 acres of strip-till corn and no-till soybeans near Prairie City, Iowa. They use cover crops on a large scale and have reduced their applied…
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PFI: Oxbows to Improve Water Quality
Webster City Webster City, IowaIn 2018, Selden Spencer purchased farmland along White Fox Creek in Hamilton County, Iowa. The 100-acre property, previously owned by Ray Fry, is a mixture of cropland, woodland, ravines and…
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NREC Batch & Build Workshop: Site Vetting and Surveying
Melbourne MelbourneThis is the second of a series of workshops to help equip ag retail professionals and others to address Iowa’s nitrogen challenge by scaling edge-of-field practices through batch and build…
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CDI Annual Conference
Ames Ames, IABased on feedback from our membership, we have pushed back the dates by one day. Our conference will be Tuesday and Wednesday, August 25 & 26. Look for details and…
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PFI: Boosting a Farm’s Resiliency Through Cover Crops and Crop Rotations
Marengo Marengo, IowaRoss McCaw began planting cover crops in 2019 to try to reduce his nitrogen inputs. He’s taking part in a nitrogen reduction trial through PFI’s on-farm research program to document…
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PFI: Establishing Native Historical Prairie Through Targeted Seed Selection
Coon Rapids Coon Rapids, IowaJon Judson and his wife, Kay Neumann, own and operate Diversity Farms, a sprawling 300-acre property comprising woodlands, wetlands, prairie and a small pasture for grass-fed beef as well as…
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PFI: Cover Crops and Conservation Across All Acres
Oskaloosa Oskaloosa, IowaJackson and Amanda Drost are part of Drost Farms, a multigenerational family farm in Mahaska County, Iowa, raising corn, soybeans and cattle. Around 2010, the Drosts flew on their first…