Sediment Abatement Project for Rock River and St.Albans Bay
Friday, January 28th
Swanton House of Pizza meeting room – Rt.78 downtown Swanton Village
10:30 am to 1 pm
Agenda
Slideshow and discussion of fall cover cropping activities
- Impact of seeding date on cover crop establishment in 2010
- Spring termination of cover crop strategies – roller/crimper, spray, tillage
- Review of most cost-effective strategies for local soil types and conditions
- Short-season corn varieties
- Observations of reduced tillage plantings
- Addressing compaction through subsoiling or tillage radishes
Presenters include:
- Heather Darby, Ph.D., University of Vermont Extension
- Brian Jerose, WASTE NOT Resource Solutions
Noon – Lunch Provided – Farmer Peer Discussion
Planning for Spring 2011
- Interest in strip-till, zone-till, no-till and subsoil implements
- Opportunities for critical area seeding, manure injection/incorporation
- Conservation tillage trials with UVM Extension
- Other sediment abatement practices of interest – grassed waterways
Publications available free to farmer participants: Managing Cover Crops Profitably, Steel in the Field, Building Soils for Better Crops and other handouts
Support for this workshop provided by: Friends of Northern Lake Champlain (FNLC) via a Vermont Dept. of Environmental Conservation Grant for Sediment Abatement in the Rock River and St.Albans Bay watersheds, UVM Extension and the Franklin-Grand Isle Counties Farmers Watershed Alliance (FWA).
For more information and to RSVP for lunch please contact:
Brian Jerose, WASTE NOT Resource Solutions
(802) 933-8336 or email