2024 Cavalier County Soil Health Tour

Real Farmers Practicing Real Conservation in Cavalier County!

Locations include the Langdon Research Extension Center and Bittner Farms.

2.5 soil and water management CEUs available.

8:30am Registration, coffee, and donuts

8:45am Welcome (Randy Mehlhoff & Cavalier County SCD board members)

9:15am Using perennial salt-tolerant grasses on marginal lands (Brenyn Hardy & Christina Crockett)

10:10am Challenges and benefits of no-till versus conventional-till (Naeem Kalwar & Jeff Stachler, PhD)

11:05am Salinity and sodicity tolerances of barley, oat and sugarbeet (Naeem Kalwar, Lindy Berg & Bailey Reiser)

Noon Transportation provided to the Bittner Farm. Lunch will be eaten on the bus and is provided by the Cavalier County Soil Conservation District.

1:00pm Planting soybeans in rye cover crop (Farmer Panel: Grant Ruehle, Aaron Kjelland, & Coy Bata)

2:00pm Questions for the Farmer Panel

2:30pm Transportation to the Langdon REC 

3:10pm Adjourn

For additional information: www.facebook.com/CavalierCountySCD and www.facebook.com/NDSUExtensionCavalierCounty

Questions call Sara McGregor at 701-256-2582 or Brenyn Hardy at 701-256-2484 ext 3.

This event is brought to you by the Langdon REC, NDSU Extension, Cavalier County NRCS & SCD.