Turning a Profit from the Ground Up

Million Acre Challenge

Farmer-educators Keith Berns and Steve Groff come together to discuss ways to improve profitability and resilience through soil health.

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Want to get even better results from one of your farm&#x27;s most valuable tools? Farmer-educators, Keith Berns and Steve Groff, team up for this FREE event designed to help you gain a better understanding of how managing for soil health can increase profitability, improve resilience, and take farm stewardship to the next level. Join us as we host this soil health dynamic duo for an information-packed, one-hour conversation on Thursday, December 9, 9:30-10:30 am. Keith Berns combines over 20 years of no-till farming with 10 years of teaching Agriculture and Computers. With his family, he has been farming in south central Nebraska all his life. In addition to no-tilling 2,000 acres of irrigated and dryland corn, soybeans, rye, triticale, peas, sunflowers, and buckwheat in South Central Nebraska. Recently, Keith has been incorporating grazing into his crop production system and notes that about 60% of his acreage will have seen grazing animals this year. Keith co-owns and operates <a href="https://greencover.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Green Cover Seed</a>, and he also developed the SmartMix CalculatorTM, one of the most widely used cover crop selection tools on the internet. Steve Groff and his family, farm 215 acres of cash grain crops, cover crops for seed, pumpkins, hard squash and heirloom tomatoes in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. For the past 25 years, his Cedar Meadow Farm has conducted thousands of cover crop research trials- out of which he developed the Tillage Radish- a cover crop known and used around the world. For the past 20 years he has pursued how to make nutrient dense foods a reality on his farm. Steve is the founder of Cover Crop Coaching. His recently released book “<a href="https://www.stevegroff.com/book" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Future-Proof Farm</a>; Changing Mindsets in a Changing World” is available at SteveGroff.com.------The goal of the Million Acre Challenge is to support farmers in building healthy soils on one million acres of Maryland agricultural land by 2030. By joining the Challenge, you show your commitment to putting your boots on the pathway to a profitable, resilient future for your farm with healthy soils as the foundation.

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