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Jennifer Filipiak, Natural Resources CoordinatorSoil & Water Conservation Society Conference
July 28-30, 2014
Beyond the Cover Crops 101 Field Day
Emerging, innovative methods for engaging farmers and landowners in cover crops management
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Cover crops in Illinois…are non-commodity crops either interseeded into living cash crops or planted onto bare fields during fallow periods to save topsoil, improve soil quality, and increase nutrients available to plants
• Soil quality, increased SOM• Erosion control• Fertility improvements• Weed suppression• Insect control• Nutrient retention/availability
Oats and annual ryegrass drilled end of August on silage cut field, © NRCS
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Illinois Agriculture
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Cover crops in Illinois
Radish + Rye©B Stikkers
Crimson clover©T Taylor
Cereal rye©AFT
Annual ryegrass + clover©NRCS
Annual ryegrass©NRCS
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Cover Crops 101 Field Day
Important, but limited in topic and geography
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Cover Crops 101: The winter meeting
Farmer panels, Farmer presenters!Seed vendors, dealers, etc.
©Illinois Dept of Agriculture ©AFT
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Innovations…
New audiences Expand geography Regional, state venues
Formats for advanced topics Applied research, deep dive
The pathway for new gurus…
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New Audiences
Peer‐to‐peer learning, acknowledges women as the experts & decision makers on their own land.
Conservation staff (women) participate in discussion – no hierarchy, no lectures
Meetings without men for first part of the day
(after a meal) Farm visits to see practices on the ground and discuss with farmer and staff
Non-operator women landowners
©AFT
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No stupid questions Healthy soil resonates: “sweet” “alive” Need follow up Get landowners to field days?
New AudiencesNon-operator women landowners
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Expand Geography
Picture of signStatewide: IDOA Cover Crop Initiative
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Evolution of IDOA’s “Tillage Seminars”
Reduced tillage + cover crops + nutrient mgt = healthy soil/resilient operation
Theme consistent, content varies regionally
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Mendota
Normal
Mt Vernon
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Formats for Advanced Topics
© Talk.buffalostate.edu
FarmerFarmerResearcher
Researcher
© NRCS
Fishbowls & clickers
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Formats for Advanced Topics
6/28/13: Roots for Improvement 101, indoors
11/19/13: Roots… II Presenters 30”, Networking 90” Planning, soil pit
Progressive Field Days
©AFT
3/14/2014: Roots… III Herbicide, seed choice, test
plots 6/20/2014: Seeds over East
Central Illinois Seed installation only
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New cover crop gurus…
Farmer/Outreach professional pairs
$10k max Media training Support listserv conference calls
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Cover Crop Champions
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New cover crop gurus
Expectations:- 150 farmers, 10 crop advisors- Interviews- Articles
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Cover Crop Champions
©IDOA
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New cover crop gurus…
Year 19 champions$65k
Year 27 champions$46k
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Cover Crop Champions
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New cover crop gurus…Train the trainers
3-year program, NFWF Workshops and networking 3 specialists CC demo sites Training sessions General outreach
Community College network
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Innovations, to sum up: New audiences Non-operator women landowners
Expand geography (regional, statewide) Conservation Cropping Systems Statewide initiative, highway signs
Formats for advanced topics Fishbowls & Clickers Progressive field days
Pathways for new gurus… Cover crop champions Train the trainer
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Networking: farmers, researchers, vendors
Lessons learned: success!
Farmers love to hear about research if…
Partnerships, esppublic/private
©M Peterson
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Lessons learned: needs more work!
Tailor your message/training Missing: chemical dealers,
implement dealers, farm managers Provide a pathway for new
educators (farmers, extension, etc.)
©B Margraf
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Acknowledgements
IDOA Champaign SWCD Practical Farmers of Iowa National Wildlife Federation Dr. Shalamar Armstrong & Dr. Joel
Gruver Mike Plumer
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Jen Filipiak, [email protected]
American Farmland Trust –saving the land that sustains us by
protecting farm and ranchland, promoting sound farming practices and keeping
farmers on the land!www.farmland.org
©Lussier Photography