Two long-running farmer conferences that focus on conservation have merged.  Daniel Smith with the University of Wisconsin’s Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences department tells Brownfield the new Wisconsin Water and Soil Health Conference replaces the Wisconsin Cover Crop Conference and the Discovery Farms Conference. “Both had very similar topics the last few years, focusing on improving water quality, improving soil conservation, soil health was a big topic we were chatting about, and then cover cropping, so we thought it made sense to merge these two together.

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