Jay Baxter had big shoes to fill when his father passed and he took the reins of their family farm. But his family has moved the ball forward, implementing no-till practices, cover crops, high-tech irrigation technology and other practices on their 2,000-acre farm near Georgetown, Del.

Baxter will provide an overview of his family’s diversified farm operation that includes corn, soybeans, wheat, sweet corn and lima beans, as well as a 200,000 broiler chicken operation and potted plant production in greenhouses. He’ll also describe the learning curve he encountered with planting cash crops and processing vegetables into living cover crops and how he overcame those challenges to continue improving soil health.