PPF Farm Group Shares Regenerative Strategies

Russel Hedrick, owner of Soil Regen of North Carolina, urged farmers to make management decisions based on new technologies and to use cover cropping, biologicals, drone applications and fertility management. He advised farmers to start using new methods on a trial basis. Submitted.

In front of more than 80 farmers, industry partners and community members at the nonprofit organization’s annual meeting this winter, Peninsula Pride Farms (PPF) shared information on new regenerative strategies for farms and farmland. PPF is a nonprofit organization of dairy farmers, crop farmers and corporate members committed to protecting and improving ground and surface water in Kewaunee and southern Door counties. 

Suggestions from presenters included making management decisions based on new technologies and using new methods on a trial basis, such as cover cropping, biologicals, drone applications and fertility management; continuing to do soil sampling for efficiency and conservation, as has been the case for 99.7% of the group’s 73,421 cropped acres; thinking about how conservation practices add value and linking that with financial planning; and realizing that the use of cover crops improves infiltration rates and nitrogen ability.