The 2008 Conservation in Action Tour was a great success. Nearly 100 members and partners attended to see the latest conservation practices of five farms in central Indiana. The photos below show highlights of the tour.

We hope you will join us again in 2009. Mark your calendars for July 29, where the tour will feature stops in western Illinois!

An engrossed group of Conservation In Action Tour participants listens to a discussion at one of the Beck's Hybrids seed company's greenhouses.


Photo Courtesy of Purity Mason

Side-by-side demonstration models at Rulon Enterprises show how ground water appears in a conventional tilled field (left) versus a no-till field (right) with residue on the soil surface.

Photo Courtesy of Purity Mason

At Lamb Farms, drywall scrap from construction projects is ground into gypsum and spread on fields as a soil amendment.

Photo courtesy of Randall Reeder

Participants in the Conservation In Action Tour view a auto reset slurry injector at Beard's swine farm.

Photo courtesy of Purity Mason

Barry Fisher (NRCS) explains the conservation benefits of a no-till corn planter displayed at Starkey Farms at the Tour's first stop.

Photo Courtesy of Purity Mason