Iowa Learning Farms will host a virtual field day at 1 p.m. April 24 called “Farming for the Future With Cover Crops, Extended Rotations and More!”

The online event will include video footage from the field and live interaction with Marshall County farmer Wade Dooley as he shows the various changes he is making within the family farming operation to adjust to changing markets and climate.

Dooley operates his farm with an emphasis on making it resilient to the changing climate and finding systems that allow him to learn and adapt. For Dooley, this means making big changes: moving away from row crops to Conservation Reserve Program acres, raising cover crops for seed, extending his rotations and growing a grass-fed cow-calf operation.

“One of my main goals is to grow food [vegetables, fruit and meat] in order to feed our neighbors here in Iowa,” Wade Doole says. (Photo by ILF)

“It is important to find a system that allows you to do what you enjoy, but that will also be a successful and profitable business,” Dooley says.

To participate in the live field day, shortly before 1 p.m. on April 24, click this URL, or type this web address into your internet browser: iastate.zoom.us/s/315189792. Or call 312-626-6799 or 646-876-9923. Meeting ID is 315 189 792. The field day will be recorded and archived on the ILF website, so that it can be watched at any time. The archive is at iowalearningfarms.org/page/events.

A certified crop adviser continuing education unit has been applied for. Information on how to apply to receive the CEU will be provided at the end of the field day.

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