2010 Annual Report for LNC09-312
Southwest North Dakota Soil Health Demonstration
Summary
The project manager attended multiple soil health workshops and soil health field days to see improvements other organizations were making with soil health.
3rd Annual Forage Beef and Cover Crop Workshop was held September 15th with 110 people in attendance. People in attendance included extension employees, Natural Resource Conservation Service employees, Soil Conservation District employees, high school and college students, farmers, and ranchers.
Objectives/Performance Targets
Objective is to demonstrate how using no-till, diverse crop rotation, and cover crops can improve soil health. We have more producers in the area that are taking advantage of these practices after coming to our demonstration plots for the workshop.
Accomplishments/Milestones
Fourteen producers signed up for the NCR-SARE cover crop initiative. Two hundred and eighty acres of cover crops were planted under a no till system on the producers’ land. Producer feed back has been very positive. They are excited to plant cover crop again in 2011.
Soil Food Web Test were taken at the beginning of the project in 2008 and will be taken again in June 2011 to compare changes.
Impacts and Contributions/Outcomes
Project Manager received many calls from producers wanting to learn more about cover crops and how they affect soil health.
Project Manager had speaking engagements at Western RC&D Conference in Missoula Montana attendance 200, Dunn County Soil Conservation Field Day attendance 30, 3rd annual Forage Beef and Cover Crop Workshop at the Southwest North Dakota Soil Health Demonstration Field Day attendance 110. There was also 3 other small public county meeting the project manager spoke at 45 people total were in attendance.
Collaborators:
District Conservationist
Natural Resources Conservation Service
box 359
killdeer, ND 58640
Office Phone: 7017645646
Project Manager
Central Stark and Western Soil Conservation District
2493 4th ave w room c
dickinson, ND 58601
Office Phone: 7012253811
District Manager
Central Stark and Western Soil Conservation District
2493 4th ave w room c
Dickinson, ND 58601
Office Phone: 7012253811
District Conservationist
Natural Resources Conservation Services
2493 4th ave w
dickinson, ND 58601
Office Phone: 7012253811
District Manager
Dunn County Soil Conservation District
box 359
killdeer, ND 58640
Office Phone: 7017645646
Website: http://www.dunnscd.org
Director
Dickinson Research Extention Center
1041 State Ave
dickinson, ND 58601
Office Phone: 7014832348
Website: http://www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/dickinso/
Coordinator
Natural Resources Conservation Service, Assisting Dakota West Resource Conservation and Developement
135 sims suite 212
dickinson , ND 58601
Office Phone: 7012258721