NORFOLK, Nebraska -- The Bazile Groundwater Management Area Project and Bow Creek Watershed Project are teaming up with Junior Pfanstiel to host a Regenerative Ag Field Day on Tuesday, July 8, 2025. 

The project involves planting green four rows of corn 10-feet wide and leaving 10-feet of cover crops (regenerative strips) throughout the field. The regenerative strips will then be roller crimped in the whole field. This process provides weed control and fertility to the corn. A warm season diverse cover crop mix will then be drilled into the regenertive strips. Later in the season, a cool season diverse cover mix will be established. Strips will be rotationally grazed down to 50% before moving to the next one.

During this event, organizers plan to have the following discussions:

• Junior Pfanstiel, Outside the Box Agronomy, LLC, will talk about his objective and thought process in the planning, the why, and just what his expectations are. Nathan Choat of Green Cover Crops will speak directly on the planned mixes that were chosen.
• Ben Beckman, UNL Livestock Extension Educator, will talk about the mixes and what each mix brings to the prescribed grazing and their benefits.
• Caro Cordova, Statewide Soil Health Specialist and UNL Assistant Professor, will talk about the benefits and soil health implementations, discuss the root pit and what it means, and will have the biomass analysis available to discuss how it ties into the entire soil health complex.
• Amy Timmerman, UNL Cropping Extension Educator, will be on hand to demonstrate a water infiltration kit and how it impacts your soil health and potential plant yield.

For the established cover crops, there will be a root pit opened to see how far down the roots were established prior to being crimped. Junior Pfanstiel's equipment will also be showcased (crimper, drill and inter-seeder highboy).

Register: https://forms.gle/8BkwAsCDn1q7TEFCA

This field day is sponsored and produced by Outside the Box Agronomy, UNL Extension, Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education (SARE), Nebraska Department of Water, Environment, & Energy, and the Lewis & Clark NRD, the Lower Elkhorn NRD, the Lower Niobrara NRD, and the Upper Elkhorn NRD.