Innovative program grows farmers

Chuck Anderas Michael Fields Agricultural Institute
Oct 9, 2024
Oct 9, 2024

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Kaitlin Schott, Natural Resources Conservation Service’s Wisconsin urban conservationist, talks with farmer Juan Gonzalez Torres outside one of the Farley Center’s high tunnels. Two of the tunnels were paid for Environmental Quality Incentives Program cost-share support.

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Farmer Juan Gonzalez Torres of Los Abuelos Farm walks through his fields where he practices conservation while producing food for market and his community-supported agriculture.

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Buckwheat is planted as a summer cover crop in a Farley Center farmer’s field.

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Seth Riley, Farley Center farm manager, explains while standing in a cover-crop field that cover crops help reduce weed pressure and build soil organic matter. That helps make fields more fertile and retain more moisture, and reduces erosion.

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Chuck Anderas Michael Fields Agricultural Institute

VERONA, Wis. – A group of farmers, would-be farmers, nonprofit staff, government-agency staff and community members visited in early September the Farley Center in Verona to learn about how farmers and others can partner with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service.

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