Green Cover hosts soil health field days at Bladen

The 2023 Soil Health Field Days is set to take place on Tuesday and Friday, Aug. 1 and 4, at the Green Cover headquarters in Bladen.

The free event will feature tours of more than 100 different cover crop species, corn interseeding, and a drone seeding demonstration. Attendees can choose to attend one (or both) of two identical sessions, held on Tuesday, Aug. 1 and Friday, Aug. 4. Registration and breakfast will begin at 8 a.m. and the event will conclude after lunch.

The event will kick off with tours in the summer planted cover crop test plots, which feature more than 100 diff erent species of cover crops, planted in monocultures as well as some of the widely utilized mixes. This year will also have a special focus on corn interseeding featuring more than 20 interseeded species, two different timings, and various row spacings.

At noon, the group will all move to the Webster County fairgrounds where lunch will be provided and enjoyed indoors, out of the sun. Following a lunch prepared with local ingredients, a Q&A session will be held to answer questions from the day’s events.

This is a free event, open to the public with lunch provided by Green Cover.

For more information and to register, please visit the Green Cover website at greencover.com/viewevents