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Explore our Conservation Calendar for information on conservation-related events and trainings hosted across Wisconsin and beyond.
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Join us for the National Watershed Coalition Webinar on Seven Principles for Selling Conservation, using those principles to sell several aspects of Watershed Project work, including addressing mitigation efforts, and the importance and opportunities for buffer and riparian development. Our featured presenter is Bobby Whitescarver. Registration and info here.
BITS is the DNR’s online system to track BMPs implemented through certain pollution abatement programs. DNR will be hosting the following webinars to help you prepare and submit data in BITS: Targeted Runoff Management Grants in BITS – Thursday, Sept. 16 at 9 a.m. In this webinar, we will dive into BITS and walk through […]
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension’s Badger Crop Connect, is finishing up the 2021 growing season with several webinars in September and October. This series provides agronomists, crop consultants and farmers timely crop updates for Wisconsin during the growing season. This session is on Winter Wheat and Soil Carbon: Randy Jackson presenting Are there […]
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Join us as we discuss where forced aeration and preprocessing came from and how NRCS, through a simple Conservation Innovation Grant nearly twenty years ago, help mold this alternative to static pile composting. During this webinar, how the science of composting is harnessed and optimized through preprocessing and forced aeration and how NRCS and industry […]
Join us for a selection of talks covering the latest MAISRC research on zebra mussels, spiny water fleas, watermilfoil, genetic biocontrol, and much more. Register here.
The agenda is: 9:00 Check-in 9:15 Introductions 9:30 Waterhemp management and soybean herbicide program decisions Dr. Rodrigo Werle 10:00 Corn rootworm & 2021 summer updates Bryan Jensen 10:30 Tar spot in 2021 Dr. Damon Smith 11:00 Cover crops for weed management Nick Arneson 11:30 Combine cleaning Dan Smith
To start the day, we'll be stopping at Jennie-O Turkey to hear how they manage ever-changing trends and regulations, including animal care and water use. Next, the bus will head to Four Mile Creek Dairy to learn how this family dairy farm enriches their land while mitigating soil erosion. While here, we will enjoy lunch […]
This webinar will explore the complexities of forest degradation due to poor forest management and planning. We will gain a basic understanding of land-use history as it pertains to forest degradation and how misconceptions of forest ecology have led to poor forest management. Then we will learn how forest products markets (or lack thereof) play […]
In this webinar, bat experts and advocates will take the audience deep into some of these other-worldly landscapes and discuss why caves and karst formations must be protected. The panel will highlight the most pressing threats that bats face and explain how anyone can help make a bat-friendly community, above and below the ground, during […]
Barr Farms has raised livestock and Certified Organic mixed vegetables on a fragipan (shallow soil) in the Ohio River Valley for 13 years. In response to increasing climate challenges – heavy rain events, high humidity all year, wetter than normal summers, and the possibility of droughts in the fall – Adam and Rae have implemented […]
Join the Climate Change Coalition of Door County for a stimulating exploration of new approaches to agriculture and the cultural and economic systems underlying it. The focus will be on perennial grains, which don’t need to be replanted every year and don't require destructive monocultures. The program will feature four leaders in this field — […]
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