Adam Daugherty, Coffee County Tennessee Conservation District

Since 2013, Coffee County, TN NRCS District Conservationist Adam Daugherty has been working with producers in the transitioning of long term no-till corn, soybean, and wheat production systems into higher functioning agro-ecological systems.  This journey started out with a few committed producers and has grown to over 70 producers implementing diverse high biomass row crop systems on over 50% of the counties 53,000 cropland acres.  Adam plans to share how and why they started this transition, where these systems have taken these producers, as well as where they can go with these systems.  During early adoption many of the promoted benefits of these systems were readily observed, but over this journey many unexpected benefits as well as challenges have arisen.  Adam will share the good, the bad, and the ugly of their journey as well as the social and economic impacts this journey has had on the producers as well as the local and surrounding agricultural community. 

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