This field day is open to anyone who would like to attend.  Forwarded by
Jane Clark at [log in to unmask]
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June 22

10:00 a.m.

New Melleray Abbey, Joe Fitzgerald, 6500 Melleray Circle, Peosta, IA

319-588-2319

Joe Fitzgerald is farm manager for the New Melleray Abbey, which grows
2,000 acres of corn, soybeans, wheat, rye, oats, oil sunflowers, and some
hay, and leased pasture.  The farm has been owned and operation by Catholic
monks since 1849 and is presently exploring ways to reduce purchased
chemicals and improve conservation.  Some land is organic, with more acres
in transition to organic certification.

>>>Demonstrations:
producing and using compost in organic crop production, rotational benefits
of oats with legumes, flame cultivation, management of alfalfa weevil and
leafhopper using unharvested refuge strip (with ISU Entomology Depra),
soild fertility paragidgms.

From Hwy. 151 west of Dubuque, go NW (at sign for abbey) onm Hwy. D-41 (New
Melleray Rd.) look for sign on right.  Or: from Hwy. 20 take Peosta exit,
south 3 miles to New Melleray Rd.
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Sponsored by Practical Farmers of Iowa, a nonprofit farmer-member
organization that works to share information about profitable,
environmentally-sound methods of farming and to encourage research in this
area.

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