Farm Synergy

Farm Synergy: Partnering To Diversify Rotations, Build Resilience and Improve Efficiency

Thursday, June 26
4-6 p.m.

Location

677 480th St.
Linn Grove, IA 51033

Hosts

Nick Sennert, Jessob Steffen and Neil Krummen

A few years ago, northwest Iowa farmers and childhood friends Nick Sennert, Jessob Steffen and Neil Krummen decided to help each other out with harvests. That experience went so well, they started doing all harvests together. Eventually, they sold their smaller machinery to collectively purchase larger equipment. Today, though each has his own farm, they work together to farm regeneratively using diversified rotations, cover crops, reduced tillage, decreased nitrogen and other synthetic inputs, and livestock integration.

Join Nick, Jessob and Neil as they share their story of partnership and working collaboratively to build resilience on their farms. You’ll learn the benefits of extending your rotation as you examine oats and buckwheat in the field and view a shared air seeder and combine with a pick-up head.

Meal

A light meal will follow the field day.

See & Discuss

Steps to incorporating regenerative practices across multiple farms
Technical practices for growing, harvesting and marketing oats
Opportunities to double-crop and support pollinators with buckwheat
Cooperative farming through co-owned equipment and shared labor
Starting a cover crop business to boost income

Location Notes

Google Maps lists the address as being in Alta, Iowa, but the location is still correct. The field day location is 0.2 mile west of 70th Avenue (County Road M36) on Co Rd C25.