You have another opportunity next month to see the evolution of agriculture unfold in Kewaunee County.

Kinnard Farms in Casco has been tapped to host the first session of the Peninsula Pride Farms Conservation Conversation series in 2026. The session will cover three aspects of its operations that Kinnard Farms hopes will make it more sustainable for the foreseeable future.

Attendees will be able to see the farm’s sand separator system, bioreactor and newly constructed Sedron facility. The sand separator system allows the farm to recycle the sand it uses as bedding for its herd of more than 8,000 cows.

Constructed in 2024, Kinnard Farms became the first in the country to have a denitrifying bioreactor and a phosphorus removal system (PRS) built in-line on the same tile system within a field, designed to reduce nitrogen and remove dissolved phosphorus in runoff water.

In 2025, the farm showed off its new Sedron facility, which houses the Varcor systems tasked with processing dairy manure into three products: a dry organic fertilizer, a liquid fertilizer featuring ammonium nitrate, and clean distilled water. The facility is one of three in the United States, joining two others in Indiana.

When he unveiled the facility last August, Lee Kinnard of Kinnard Farms said the technology allows him to be a better steward of the environment and a better neighbor. He added that the Varcor system will take hundreds of manure trucks off local roads.

The Peninsula Pride Farms Conservation Conversation, which will take place at other farms highlighting different practices throughout the year, will begin at 10:30 a.m. in the Kinnard Farms observation room and run until 2 p.m., following the tour. More information about the event is available below.

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