Drones, Management-Intensive Grazing and Cover Crops
Drones, Management-Intensive Grazing and Cover Crops in Southeast Iowa
Monday, Aug. 25
9-11 a.m.
Location
Field location:
Across the road from 750 Forest Home Road
Montezuma, IA 50171
Hosts
Ben & Katherine De Boef
Ben and Katherine De Boef operate a corn and soybean farm in Poweshiek County, Iowa. They also raise cattle and graze them on perennial forage and annual cover crops. To help diversify their income streams, Ben and Katherine have invested in a drone to seed their own cover crops and to contract out to plant covers for other farmers. They are doing their own research on management-intensive grazing of annual cover crops to see how much they can push the cattle stocking rates. Join Ben and Katherine at this field day to see a field seeded by a drone, and to find out what they have learned so far in their management-intensive grazing trial.
See & Discuss
- A drone-seeding demonstration
- Owning and operating a drone
- Cattle grazing on a summer annual cover crop grazing mix
Location Notes
From Iowa Route 146, head east on Forest Home Road for 1.1 miles. The location will be on the north side of the road in a field. This field is on the opposite side of the road from 750 Forest Home Road.