Conservation Conversation
Join us for our third Conservation Conversation of the year. We’ll spend an hour talking about the center point drop nozzle irrigation system that uses water from the feed pad. Follow this link to learn more.
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Conservation Calendar
Looking to stay up to date on your CEUs? Have producers asking conservation-specific questions you don’t feel confident answering? Looking to host a training and want to avoid conflicts for your audience? You have come to the right place.
Explore our Conservation Calendar for information on conservation-related events and trainings hosted across Wisconsin and beyond.
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Ebert Enterprises Algoma, WI
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Source Water Protection in the Watershed
OnlineBest Management Practices in the watershed are crucial to limiting external nutrient loading into our drinking water sources. The first presentation will discuss how watershed development impacts the water quality, hydrology and biota of surface water reservoirs. The second presentation will be an assessment of how Florida is approaching load reductions from agricultural areas. Information […]
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Climate-Critical Lands Briefing: Identifying Priorities and Potential
OnlineClimate change continues to be one of the most serious social, economic, and environmental challenges of our time. This is true globally, nationally, and in Wisconsin. Here at the Wisconsin Academy, our ongoing pursuit of innovative, Wisconsin-focused climate and clean energy solutions leads us to the promise and potential of natural climate solutions and a […]
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Road Salts and Freshwater Salinization Syndrome: An Emerging Water Quality Threat
OnlineStreams throughout the U.S. and worldwide have increased in salinity due to multiple processes, including road salt and human-accelerated weathering of impervious surfaces, reductions in acid rain, and other anthropogenic legacies. This freshwater salinization, in turn, mobilizes chemical cocktails via ion exchange and other biogeochemical processes. This webinar will examine fate and transport of salts […]
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UW Small Grains Field Day
Arlington Agricultural Research Station N695 Hopkins Road, Arlington, WisconsinSmall grain resiliency trial plot tour includes: What can we effectively grow? Haleigh Ortmeier-Clarke, Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Agronomy Disease management in Wisconsin: What works and what doesn’t! Damon Smith, Associate Professor & Extension Specialist, Department of Plant Pathology UW winter wheat variety trials: Tour and management update Shawn Conley, Soybean & Small Grains […]
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UW Small Grains Field Day
Arlington Agricultural Research Station N695 Hopkins Road, Arlington, WisconsinJoin us on July 1 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. for the UW Small Grains Field Day at Arlington Agricultural Research Station. The agenda includes the following presentations: Small grain resiliency trial plot tour–What Can we Effectively Grow? Haleigh Ortmeier-Clarke, Graduate Research Assistant Disease Management in Wisconsin: What Works and What Doesn’t! Damon Smith, […]
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COMET Tools: An Overview of the Climate Smart Toolset
OnlineCOMET-Farm estimates the carbon footprint for all or part of your farm/ranch operation and allows you to evaluate different options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and sequestering more carbon. Because the tool uses detailed spatially-explicit data on climate and soil conditions for your location and allows you to enter detailed information for your field and […]
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UW Cover Crop Management in Conventional and Organic Corn–Soybean Production Systems Plot Tour
Arlington Agricultural Research Station N695 Hopkins Road, Arlington, WisconsinJoin us on July 1 from 1:00 p.m–-3:30 p.m. at Arlington Ag Research Station to visit our cover crop research plots, check equipment and exchange knowledge with University Specialists and fellow farmers adopting cover crops in their crop production systems. Participants are asked to meet at 12:45 p.m. at the Public Events Building at the […]
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WI Dairy Grazing Apprenticeship Pasture Walk – Van Langen Dairy Farm
Van Langen Farm Edgar, WisconsinRon and Ester Van Langen are hosting an afternoon pasture walk featuring their managed grazing, robotic milking dairy enterprise. The Van Langen’s own 440 acres, and rent 95 acres. With approximately 350 in pastures and another 90 acres for cropland. Their crossbred herd of 140 includes 130 milking cows. Growing up in the Netherlands, where […]
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Basic Ag for Conservationists
OnlineJoin us to better understand the basics of agriculture through a multi-component course taught by experienced local, state and federal conservationists. This training is intended to provide conservation professionals with the necessary skills and farming knowledge to implement conservation practices for improved land management. Jointly sponsored by WI Land+Water and UW–Madison Division of Extension. Wednesday, […]
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Mitigation of Internal Nutrient Loads in Drinking Water Sources
OnlineWith the increasing occurrence of harmful algal blooms (HABs), and no silver-bullet solution, development of innovative management practices and technology has come to the forefront. The first presentation will review the structure of thermal stratification and mechanisms of internal loading of anaerobic respiration products and soluble reactive phosphorus that stimulates cyanobacteria blooms. The second presentation […]
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Tools for Minimal-Till Market Farming and Diversified Vegetables: Virtual Field Day
OnlineIn their eighth year of CSA and farmers market sales from their 13-acre farm, Anna Raines and the crew at Rains and Sun have curated a rich collection of tools critical to their certified organic diversified vegetable production. This virtual event will focus on season extension / protected production (high tunnels, caterpillar tunnels, row cover); […]
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