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Discovery Farms Programs in Wisconsin and Minnesota are excited to bring to you a virtual conference series this winter. Join them on seven Wednesdays for one hour each week as we cover topics like water quality, soil health, climate change, and more!
The meetings will include topics related to the value of soil organic matter and how to build it (Matt Ruark), lessons learned about corn nitrogen management in Wisconsin and the Midwest (Carrie Laboski), and challenges of liquid dairy manure management in Wisconsin (Francisco Arriaga).
Join other row crop and livestock farmers for a virtual cover crop boot camp. We’ll hear how cover crops can improve soil health, weed suppression, and opportunities for livestock grazing. Come and advance your understanding of how cover crops can work for you. Learn more here.
The Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) program is an important risk management tool for dairy producers from the USDA-Farm Service Agency. This voluntary insurance product allows producers to protect against low margins, specifically, the difference between the announced All Milk price and the calculated feed costs to produce milk.
Each week webinars will feature a topic related to organic grain production. Brief presentations will be followed by an open discussion. December 4 - Creating a profitable organic grain rotation through transition and beyond December 11 - Organic pea agronomy and markets December 18 - Managing through tough financial times and low organic grain prices January 8 - 60" […]
The Organic Dairy Systems Summit, hosted by the Milk Quality Improvement Program at Cornell University, will assess the challenges and opportunities currently facing the organic dairy industry. Topics include organic dairy research needs, state of the organic dairy industry, market outlook for the organic dairy industry, and challenges and opportunities facing producers, processors, and retailers […]
Looking to maximize the health of your soil? Are you interested in leveraging soil microbes to improve soil health and yield? It’s no secret that soil health is important. Healthy soils can affect a number of results from crop yield, to disease suppression, nutrient availability, and more.
This three-day, online conference will focus on different crop topics each day: Tuesday, December 8 - Corn Wednesday, December 9 - Soybean Thursday, December 10 - Wide range of topics - alfalfa, tillage, weed science, cover crops, and others Each day will include eight short presentations followed by a live question and answer period so that participants can […]
Measuring and assessing soil health are critical for understanding how changes in agronomic management practices affect the capability of soil to support cropping systems. In this presentation, the Soil Health Institute will highlight how the Institute is using data from the North American Project to Evaluate Soil Health Measurements to develop a standard set of measurements for both monitoring and evaluating soil health.
This webinar will discuss the lessons learned by the Indiana Conservation Cropping Systems Initiative (CCSI) in a statewide program to establish soil health demonstration plots on farmers’ fields.
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.
All the salt that we bring into Wisconsin leaves in our freshwater. The salt that is applied to roads, sidewalks, and placed in our water softeners is silently salting our surface and groundwater. Salt is cheap to buy, but the true cost of salt to freshwater, infrastructure, wildlife, and vegetation far outweighs its purchase price. […]
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