82nd Annual Montgomery County Soil & Water Conservation District Meeting and Election
Tue, Jan 17
|Hillsboro
Please make your reservation by calling the office at (217) 532-3361, extension 3, or by emailing Administrative Coordinator Melissa Cauble at melissa.cauble@il.nacdnet.net by close of business at 4:30 pm on Friday, January 13th.
Time & Location
Jan 17, 2023, 6:00 PM – Jan 18, 2023, 8:30 PM
Hillsboro, 1 County Rd 1200 E, Hillsboro, IL 62049, USA
About the event
The Montgomery County Soil and Water Conservation District is planning a celebration event to honor its eighty-two years of working to protect the county’s natural resources. The SWCD was formed in Montgomery County in 1941 as a grass roots agency to promote practices that would conserve precious topsoil that was being lost to the dust storms of that era. Employees and district board members worked diligently to educate farmers about tillage practices that would leave topsoil in place and reduce ephemeral, gully, and sheet/rill erosion. The “Tools of the Trade” have changed over the years with the size and type of equipment used and farming practices that are always evolving, but the mission of the SWCD has remained the same: strive to promote practices that conserve soil, improve soil health, and clean up our precious water resources.
Future goals of the SWCD include improved soil health using cover crops and…