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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Climate-Critical Lands Briefing: Identifying Priorities and Potential

Online

Climate 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 […]

Road Salts and Freshwater Salinization Syndrome: An Emerging Water Quality Threat

Online

Streams 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 […]

UW Small Grains Field Day

Arlington Agricultural Research Station N695 Hopkins Road, Arlington, Wisconsin

Small 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 […]

UW Small Grains Field Day

Arlington Agricultural Research Station N695 Hopkins Road, Arlington, Wisconsin

Join 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, […]

COMET Tools: An Overview of the Climate Smart Toolset

Online

COMET-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 […]

UW Cover Crop Management in Conventional and Organic Corn–Soybean Production Systems Plot Tour

Arlington Agricultural Research Station N695 Hopkins Road, Arlington, Wisconsin

 Join 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 […]

Free

WI Dairy Grazing Apprenticeship Pasture Walk – Van Langen Dairy Farm

Van Langen Farm Edgar, Wisconsin

Ron 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 […]

Online Course: Virtual Herbicides & Longleaf 201 Academy

Online

The Herbicides & Longleaf 201 course will guide you in the selection of forestry herbicides to advance your ecological restoration and longleaf management objectives. The Virtual Academy consists of a combination of on-demand and live learning experiences for a cumulative commitment of 12 hours over the 4-week course. Topics covered include: Herbicide application rates and […]

$50
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Basic Ag for Conservationists

Online

Join 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, […]

Free

Mitigation of Internal Nutrient Loads in Drinking Water Sources

Online

With 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 […]

Tools for Minimal-Till Market Farming and Diversified Vegetables: Virtual Field Day

Online

In 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); […]

The Dairy Experience Forum

Online

The Dairy Experience Forum is an innovative, disruptive event that will examine the key trends impacting consumers and opportunities to grow dairy sales. The forum brings together key stakeholders and dairy industry leaders at a time when consumer trends are changing, new technologies are emerging, and the demand for transparency is increasing. Topics will focus […]

$35

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