The work you are seeing in fields in Door and Kewaunee counties could be part of setting a new standard for other farmers in the state. Members of the Door-Kewaunee Demonstration Farms Network attended the Discovery Farms Annual Conference in Wisconsin Dells on Wednesday to share their experiences with management trade-offs from low disturbance manure applications. Farmers Jacob Brey of Sturgeon Bay and Aaron Augustian of Kewaunee spoke as part of a panel on how they implemented the practices on their own operations. Augustian says it is all part of the education process as they compared their old and new practices.

Augustian added that even though they still have a ways to go, he is proud of the strides local farmers have taken to address soil health and water quality on their farms and in their communities. The Door-Kewaunee Demonstration Farms Network is a Great Lakes Restoration Initiative project designed to discover new conservation practices to address water quality concerns.

Picture from Peninsula Pride Farms