A meeting concerning cover crops and soil health is scheduled for 10 a.m. Feb. 18 at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Cayuga County in Auburn.
The meeting is being held so the USDA
Natural Resources Conservation Service can kick off a National Soil
Health Initiative. The National Conference on Cover Crops & Soil
Health in Omaha, Nebraska kicks off this major effort.
The NY USDA-NRCS State Conservationist Don
Pettit will start the meeting and then there will be a live broadcast
by webinar concerning the soil and crop initiative.
Howard G. Buffett, an Illinois farmer,
conservatonist and philanthropist, and Secretary of Agriculture Tom
Vilsack will lead the webinar by discussing: The Big Picture:
Conservation, Cover Crops and Soil Health.
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