The silver lining of drought
If nature has hit the reset button for you, then this is an opportunity to put your perennial pastures on a new and better trajectory.
Read More
Keith Berns
Keith Berns combines over 25 years of no-till farming with 10 years of teaching Agriculture and Computers. In addition to no-tilling 1,800 acres of irrigated and dryland corn, soybeans, rye, triticale, sunflowers, and buckwheat in South Central Nebraska, he also co-owns and operates Green Cover Seed, one of the major cover crop seed providers and educators in the United States. Through Green Cover Seed, Keith has experimented with over 120 different cover crop types and hundreds of mixes planted into various situations and has learned a great deal about cover crop growth, nitrogen fixation, moisture usage, and grazing utilization of cover crops.
Keith was honored by the White House as a 2016 Champion of Change for Sustainable and Climate-Smart Agriculture. Keith also developed the SmartMix CalculatorTM one of the most widely used cover crop selection tools on the internet. Keith has a Masters Degree in Agricultural Education from the University of Nebraska and teaches on cover crops and soil health more than 30 times per year to various groups and audiences. Keith also was appointed by Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts to be part of the Nebraska Healthy Soils Task Force and had the privilege of serving as the chairman.
He enjoys spending time with his beautiful wife Audrey and their 7 children and their families, including the 11 grandkids!
Sales and Marketing Manager / Green Cover Seed
-
RECENT ARTICLES
-
La laiterie : Du cheddar tu ne voleras point
March 28, 2025 -
Finding, writing and applying for grants for your ranch
March 28, 2025 -
-
InFocus: 2024 per capita milk production
March 27, 2025
-
PERSONALIZED CONTENT
Create an account and see website content tailored to your operation. It only takes a few seconds!