The day was all about continuous improvement for area farmers attending Tuesday’s Peninsula Pride Farms Annual Meeting held at the Kewaunee County Fairgrounds. The producer-led watershed group listened to speakers throughout the day as they spoke about ways to fine-tune their conservation methods while also keeping an eye on their bottom line. While the farmers received feedback from local sources like Randy Zogbaum from the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection and Shawn Wesener from Farmers for Sustainable Food, they also heard from speakers from outside the area. One of those speakers was Keith Berns, a farmer from south central Nebraska and owner of a cover crop seed company. He says the growth of producer-led watershed groups in Wisconsin is something he wishes Nebraska and other states would emulate.

Berns says he hopes the annual meeting inspires the farmers in attendance to try out other conservation methods on their farms and also invites community members to check out their operations for themselves.