Northeast Cover Crops Council

Soil Health Field Day at Rodman Lott & Son Farms in Seneca Falls, NY
2024-07-25 10:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York)
Join us for a comprehensive Soil Health Field Day at Rodman Lott & Son Farms in Seneca Falls, NY, focusing on sustainable practices for field crops. This event is part of the 2024 Soil Health and Climate Resiliency Field Days, offering valuable insights and hands-on demonstrations to enhance soil health. Registration fee $10.

2024 Aurora (NY) Farm Field Day
2024-08-01 09:00 - 16:00
The annual Cornell Field Crop Research Field Day will be Thursday, August 1 at the Musgrave Research Farm, Aurora, N.Y. The program features walking and hay wagon tours in the morning and afternoon and is free and open to the public. A light breakfast and free lunch will be provided. Please pre-register by July 24.

Summer Cover Crops on Long Island
2024-08-19 16:00
Join us for a Soil Health Field Day in Suffolk County/ Long Island, focusing on summer cover crops. This event is part of the 2024 Soil Health and Climate Resiliency Field Days, offering valuable insights and hands-on demonstrations to enhance soil health.

Hands-on learning opportunities and expert insights will be at the forefront, ensuring participants have the tools to enact positive change on their farms and communities. Attendees can network with peers, exchange ideas, and explore innovative solutions to pressing agricultural challenges.

This soil health field day will include demonstrations of summer cover crops, including annual ryegrass, sunn hemp, cowpea, berseem clover, teff, sorghum sudangrass, pearl millet, mustard, and buckwheat. It will also include information about planting dates, rates, and how to incorporate summer cover crops into your system.

Cover Crops for Cut Flowers in Eastern NY
2024-08-20 17:30 - 19:30
Join us for a Soil Health Field Day in Eastern – NY / Albany County, focusing on cover crops for cut flowers. This event in Greenwich, NY is part of the 2024 Soil Health and Climate Resiliency Field Days, offering valuable insights and hands-on demonstrations to enhance soil health.

Hands-on learning opportunities and expert insights will be at the forefront, ensuring participants have the tools to enact positive change on their farms and communities. Attendees can network with peers, exchange ideas, and explore innovative solutions to pressing agricultural challenges. Registration costs $5.

Soil Health Field Day at Oechsner Farmers in Tompkins County, NY
2024-08-30 10:00 - 15:30
Join us in Newfield, NY for a Soil Health Field Day at Oechsner Farms in Central NY / Tompkins County. This event focuses on diversifying with small grains for whole-farm resiliency and soil health. It is part of the 2024 Soil Health and Climate Resilience Field Days, offering valuable insights and hands-on demonstrations to enhance soil health.

Topics:

– Reducing tillage and maximizing diversity in organic grain rotations

– Building farm resiliency with value-added operations and cooperative businesses

– Tour of Oechsner Farms grain cleaning facility and Farmer Ground flour mill.

Hands-on learning opportunities and expert insights will be at the forefront, ensuring participants have the tools to enact positive change on their farms and communities. Attendees can network with peers, exchange ideas, and explore innovative solutions to pressing agricultural challenges.

Cover Crops in Cut Flower Production - Virtual
2025-01-14 13:00 - 16:00
The third annual Winter Cut Flower Webinar Series begins on January 7, 2025 and continues over 5 weeks on Tuesdays. This is a very popular series of online events you won’t want to miss, with topflight speakers, a wide variety of subjects concerning growing cut flowers and plenty of interaction between speakers and attendees. Webinars will be recorded, and all the recordings will be sent to registrants for future review. There is a registration fee, see website for details.

NOFA-NY Winter Conference at SUNY-NY Morrisville
2025-01-18 07:30 - 20:00
The upcoming conference, focused on building resilience in the face of a changing climate, will feature more than 25 educational workshops and events, the Farmer of the Year keynote, a trade show, evening entertainment, and more. There is a registration fee.

Soil Health and Climate Resiliency Field Day – Rochester, NY
2025-09-16 15:00 - 18:00
Join event organizers for a hands-on soil health field day!

This event is for small-scale and urban growers, gardeners and farmers, with a focus on best practices for building soil health and cover cropping. Hosted by CCE Harvest New York and Cornell Vegetable Program, NY Soil Health, Monroe County SWCD, Taproot Collective, Rochester Urban Ag Working Group, and Foodlink.

Registration table will open at 2:30 PM and the program will start promptly at 3:00 PM.

Location: Foodlink Community Farm (585 Lexington Ave, Rochester, NY 14613)

Topics include: cover cropping in small spaces- species selection, seeding and termination strategies; cover crop demonstration plots; building soil health in raised beds; best practices for dealing with heavy metals soil contamination in the urban environment; and soil health demonstrations on impacts of cover crop and other management practices from NY Soil Health.

COST: FREE, light refreshments provided, but pre-registration is required. Space is limited!

Pumpkin Twilight Tour at UMD's Wye Research Center
2025-09-24 17:00 - 19:00
Please join event organizers at the Wye Research and Education Center (211 Farm Lane, Queenstown, MD) on Wednesday, September 24, 5–7 p.m, for the Pumpkin Twilight Tour. They’ll be talking cover crop choices and sharing insights from variety trials.

Northeast Cover Crops Council Fall Webinar Series
2025-10-01 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-10-08 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-10-15 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-10-22 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-10-29 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-11-05 12:00 - 13:00
Join us Wednesdays from 12-1 from Oct. 1 – Nov. 5 for a free fall webinar series.

DateSpeakerTopicOct. 1Heather Darby, UVMCover crops for forageOct. 8Etienne Sutton, MU Center for Regenerative AgNational Cover Crop Variety Testing Network: 2024-2025 Trial ResultsOct. 15John Tooker, Penn StateCover crops and pest dynamicsOct. 22Jeff Sanders, UVM + Heidi Reed, Penn StateCover crop interseeding + drone seedingOct. 29Charlie White, Penn StateCover crops and nutrient dynamicsNov. 5Daniela Carrijo, Penn State + Cara Peterson, UMDCover crops and soil water dynamics

CCA CEUs will be offered (must attend in real-time). The webinars will be recorded. Registration required, sign up at http://bit.ly/47Ja36j

Soil Health and Cover Crop Field Day – Kerhonkson, NY
2025-10-07 16:00 - 18:00
As part of the 2025 New York Soil Health and Climate Resiliency Field Days, join organizers, Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Harvest New York, and Scenic Hudson for a walk-through of different cover crop species and various mixtures.

They’ll explore the benefits of different cover crop species, how cover crops impact soil health, weed suppression, and nutrient dynamics. They’ll also focus on some exciting work to breed better cover crop cultivars.

Farm-fresh treats and cider will be served.

Open to any interested farmers.

Trying cover crops for the first time? Exploring new varieties? They’d love to have you.

Location:

Kelder’s Farm

5755 U.S. 209 Kerhonkson, NY 12446

NOFA-NY Annual Winter Conference
2026-01-09 12:00 - 2026-01-10 16:45
NOFA-NY’s Winter Conference in Purchase, NY convenes hundreds of farmers, food system professionals, educators, advocates, homesteaders, and gardeners who are passionate about advancing organic principles that create better food and farming systems.

Northeast Cover Crops Council Conference
2026-02-19 08:00 - 18:00
Please join us for the 2026 Joint No-Till & Cover Crop Conference hosted jointly by UVM Extension and the Northeast Cover Crops Council.

What: 2026 No-Till & Cover Crop ConferenceWhen: Thursday, February 19, 2026Where: DoubleTree by Hilton in South Burlington, VT

2026 Cornell Organic Field Crops & Dairy Conference
2026-03-06 08:00 - 16:30
Farmers, researchers, educators, and agricultural service providers from across the Northeast are invited to the 2026 Cornell Organic Field Crops & Dairy Conference, held Friday, March 6, 2026, from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Lux Hotel & Conference Center in Waterloo, N.Y.

Co-hosted by New York Soil Health and Cornell CALS, the annual conference brings together leaders in organic grain, dairy, and livestock systems to share practical tools, new research, and farmer-tested strategies to support resilient and profitable organic production.

GROW Farmer Forum on Cover Crop Mixes for Weed Suppression
2026-03-25 11:00 - 12:00
GROW will be hosting a Farmer Forum on Wednesday, March 25, 2026, at 11 a.m. EDT / 10 a.m. CDT. The forum’s farmer panel (Paul Davis, Davis Produce, New Kent, Virginia and Frank Rademacher, Rademacher Farms, Gifford, Illinois) and moderator (Moderator: Dr. Mark VanGessel, University of Delaware) will discuss their experience using cover crop mixes to suppress weeds and achieve other cropping goals.

Listen in and bring your questions as the farmer panel from Illinois and Virginia discuss their long-time experience selecting, seeding, managing, and terminating cover crop mixes with weed management in mind. CCA CEU credits will be available. Registration is free.
