Regenerative Ag Field Day
Co-hosted by the Bazile Groundwater Management Area Project and the Bow Creek Watershed Project
Date: July 8, 2025
Directions to Field: Due North on 552 Ave from Hwy 20 (West of McLean Turn)
Time: Join us from 10:00 am ‘til Noon –
Lunch will be available after we finish up - at the newly opened restaurant ‘The Breakroom’ in Randolph, NE (6 miles east of the field location), where the food is ALL locally grown!
Junior’s up to it again!
The project involves planting green - 4 rows of corn 10 ft wide and leave 10 ft of cover crops throughout the field, cover crops will be roller crimped in the whole field. This will provide weed control and fertility to the corn. A warm season diverse cover mix will then be drilled into the regen strips. Later on in the season, a cool season diverse cover mix will be established. Strips will be rotationally grazed down to 50% before moving to the next one.
At this event, we want to showcase Jr’s equipment (crimper, drill and inter-seeder highboy), why he planned it out this way, and what he is hoping to achieve.
During this event, we plan on having the following:
•Nathan Choat of Green Cover Crops will speak directly on the planned mixes that were chosen and why.
•Ben Beckman, UNL Livestock Extension Educator, will talk about the mixes and what each mix brings to the prescribed grazing and their benefits.
•Caro Cordova, Statewide Soil Health Specialist and UNL Assistant Professor, will talk about the benefits and soil health implementations, and discuss the root pit and what it means, and also will have the biomass analysis available and discuss how that ties into the entire soil health complex.
•Amy Timmerman, UNL Cropping Extension Educator, will be on hand to demonstrate a water infiltration kit and what the significant meaning is to your soil health and potential plant yield.
For the established cover crops, we will have a root pit opened so we can see just how far down the roots got established prior to being crimped!
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