Join the Crow Wing River Basin Forage Council for a fall pasture walk on the Borman Farm. Cory and Pam Borman operate a grass based cow calf operation near Backus. We will be looking at rotational grazing in wooded pastures (silvopasture), and strategic feeding to control woody brush and improve pasture productivity. Tyler Carlson, Silvopasture and Agroforestry…

Join Angie Walter and Dairy Grazing Apprenticeship for their last pasture walk of 2023! We’ll meet at Enchanted Meadows, an organic, pasture-based dairy in La Crescent. Chad & Melissa Crowley and Art & Jean Thicke milk Ayrshires here on the Mississippi bluffs. We’ll discuss pasture diversity, rest periods, and outwintering cattle for soil health benefits.…

Clean River Partners and a number of local ag partners including SFA are hosting a Carbon Markets, Kernza & Water Quality Field Day at White Barn Acres on October 11 from 12:00-3:30 PM. Attendees will learn about emerging profit opportunities in farming. They will: Hear from Continuum Ag, a regenerative ag company providing farmers with carbon intensity scoring and agronomy…

This is the second of two September field days where you can view a diverse farm, discuss soil health and find out what motivated them to get Ag Water Quality Certified. At each event, the farmers will be on hand to discuss their soil health practices as well as the Minnesota Agricultural Water Quality Certification Program certification…

This is the first of two September field days where you can view a diverse farm, discuss soil health and find out what motivated them to get Ag Water Quality Certified. At each event, the farmers will be on hand to discuss their soil health practices as well as the Minnesota Agricultural Water Quality Certification Program…

Adaptive Grazing Management in Drought Discussion Sept. 13 near Spicer Are you suffering from drought over the past growing season(s)? Has drought forced you to make financial decisions that set your farm and goals back? Join SFA’s Jonathan Kilpatrick and Doug Voss for a free event to discuss livestock management in drought from 4:30 to…

DGA Fall Pasture Walk & PaddockTrac Demo at Walter Farm SFA’s Angie Walter is hosting a DGA Fall Pasture Walk and demonstration of the PaddockTrac system from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thurs., Sept. 7, at her Walter Organic Family Farm, 11034 110th St, Villard, Minn. The PaddockTrac device, which is in the prototype phase,…