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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Workshop on Science for Trout Stream Restoration

Online

This workshop will concentrate on understanding essential stream habitats by examining in detail how trout use structural and hydraulic features. If we want to conserve and restore streams for trout, we should let these fish show us what they want. Register here.

Free

Using the Actually Restorable Wetland Tool

Online

A large portion of the Rock River Basin consists of wetlands that were converted to croplands. The Actually Restorable Wetland (ARW) map helps locate suitable wetland restoration sites based on both property boundaries and ecological factors.

Free

Applying a Climate Change Filter to the Coastal Resiliency Project

Online

This workshop will bring together natural resource managers from across the lakeshore to dig into the effects of climate change on forests and forest carbon; develop strategies for adapting our forests to climate change; and work toward shared goals of diverse, healthy forests, and migratory bird habitats.

Free

Weather-Ready Farms

Online

The University of Nebraska Extension has developed a program in which farmers are certificated at different tiers for their use of practices science knows to promote resilience to extreme weather events. This webinar will include a discussion of the development of that curriculum, current issues, and related resources for use by those in other states. […]

Free

Healthy Soil Summit

Online

The annual summit is built for farmers searching for an advantage in today's marketplace. Our instructors are real farmers who practice what they teach, from tactics to build soil resilience, increase water storage capacity and decrease costly inputs and programs.

$175

Producer-Led Watershed Protection Grants: Application Tips

Online

Join DATCP for an overview of the 2021 Producer-Led Watershed Protection Grant application, new requirements, and tips for success when writing your proposal. To register, email: Rachel.Rushmann@wi.gov

Free

Badger Crop Connect

Online

Agenda: Local Update on Crop Conditions Nick Baker, Rock County Agriculture Educator Cover Crops after Corn Silage for Spring Forage: Economics and the Environment Kevin Shelley, UW-Madison, NPM Cover Crop Considerations after Corn and Soybean Grain Crops Dan Smith, UW-Madison, NPM Register here.

Free

Crop Rotations Effects on Soil Health

Online

Crop rotational planning is the most universal and powerful tool available to farmers. Rotations can be used to address weed, disease, and insect issues and also provide the opportunity to improve soils and improve the ecosystem. All of this improves profitability Register here.

Free

Prairie Strips: A New Conservation Practice for Farmers and Crop Consultants

Online

Strips of native perennial vegetation on small portions of farm fields can provide disproportionally large benefits for soil and nutrient conservation. Now it's an official practice in CRP. Hear from two Wisconsin cash grain farmers and their advisors about the why and how for the layout and establishment of prairie strips while maintaining efficient field […]

Free

Water Quality Trading

Online

This webinar will feature presentations by two experts, Brian Brandt and Mark Kieser, who are currently working on projects to advance water quality trading programs for farmers and ranchers

Free

How’s My Waterway

Online

An updated version of How's My Waterway (HMW) was released publicly in June 2020. HMW provides a comprehensive overview of water quality data and information in the United States on three different scales: community, state, and national.

Free

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