Building Resilience in your Farm Operation

Kent Solberg and Doug Voss will lead a workshop on "Building Resilience in your Farm Operation." Learn how to:

-Efficiently grow healthier crops that reduce input needs
-Broaden the harvest window
-Increase soil function and ability to handle weather extremes
-Protect and enhance resources without losing profit
-Gain a greater understanding of the long-term impacts of our management decisions
-The understated value of livestock integration
-Grow healthy plants that resist pest pressure 
-Polycropping- why and potential options
-Capitalize on nutrients already present on the farm

Registration, coffee and donuts at 8:30 AM, workshop begins at 9 AM. Lunch is provided.

We will visit the Bill Bendickson Farm in the afternoon to see cover crops growing and discuss soil health and alternative cropping strategies.

Free to attend! Thank you to our partners at Roseau County and Lake of the Woods Soil & Water Conservation Districts.

Walkups welcome, but registeration is required to ensure you get a lunch.

Address: Warroad Public Safety Building 802 Cherne Drive NW Warroad, MN 56763

About the presenters:

Kent Solberg is the senior technical advisor for the Sustainable Farming Association. From his farm in Wadena County, MN he travels the state and the country teaching and educating farmers and conservation professionals on soil health principles, adaptive grazing, low input dairying and regenerative cropping. After a ten year career with natural resource agencies, Kent started his own award winning dairy farm, was a farm fence contractor, and taught agriculture college courses. He now is a partner in Grazetek, a custom and conservation grazing service, and also consults and teaches for Understanding Ag and Soil Health Academy.

Doug Voss As the grazing lead for the Sustainable Farming Association, Doug consults with and teaches farmers how to improve their resources while lowering their input needs. Doug resides in Paynesville, MN where he operates Voss Farms. For many years, Doug and his family ran a dairy and crop farm before transitioning to a business focused on custom grazing. Doug has a wealth of knowledge in soil health  and a unique ability to help farmers think differently about their farms and ranches. He now is a partner in Grazetek, a custom and conservation grazing service, and also consults and teaches for Understanding Ag and Soil Health Academy.

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