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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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

Nutrition for Agronomists Webinar

Online

Rye and Triticale following corn silage - Improving forage quality through agronomy - Decoding the nutrition alphabet soup - Planning a successful season Presented by: Liz Binversie, Agriculture Educator Register here.

Free

Cover Crops Virtual Field Day

Online

The virtual cover crop field day will discuss the why and how of interseeding cover crops into standing corn. Benefits, challenges, planting, yield, and herbicide interactions will be discussed in a regional manner, considering research in Southwest Michigan, Central Michigan, the thumb, Northwest Michigan, and the UP. Learn more here.

Free

Between the Lakes Demonstration Farms Network Field Day

Dallmann East River Dairy N6038 E River Rd, Brillion, WI

Presentations include: On-farm discussion of manure system: including digestor, feed pad runoff collection, and irrigation system. In-field discussion about the use of companion grass and clovers with alfalfa. Agronomic reasons, ration considerations, and milk yield potential. What we are learning about in-season nitrogen management tools. In-field demonstration of live, mobile manure hazard maps, along with […]

Free

Geotechnical Investigations for Structures Webinar

Online

The webinar will cover the sampling and testing of foundation soils for above-ground tanks, post and piers, retaining walls, and continuous walls under roof structures.  It will cover the Wisconsin supplement to the NRCS Engineering Field Handbook (EFH) – Part 650, Chapter 4, Exhibit A - https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/PA_NRCSConsumption/download?cid=nrcseprd1592220&ext=pdf  2 PDHs will be offered.  Presenters are Mike […]

Introduction to High Tunnels in Organic Systems

Online

Participate in this webinar to learn about general organic management practices in high tunnel systems. This first in a three-part series focused on organic management of high tunnels will provide a general introduction including various high tunnel structures.

Free

Phosphorus Management Workshop

Online

Join this informative webinar focused on managing phosphorus in conservation cropping systems. Presentations will highlight current research and management tips for farmers and their advisors on best management practices that reduce nonpoint source phosphorus loading. Learn more here.

Free

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