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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Measures of Soil Nitrogen Cycling

Online

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 focus on explaining measurements and assessments of soil health associated with soil-nitrogen dynamics.

Free

Clean Groundwater and Well Water in Rural and Suburban Wisconsin Communities – Part 1

Online

This session outlines the public health aspects of tainted groundwater. The presenters are Sarah Yang, Ph.D., toxicologist with the Bureau of Environmental and Occupational Health, Wisconsin Division of Public Health, and Gavin Dehnert, Ph.D., Policy Postdoctoral Fellow, Wisconsin Water Resources Science, Bureau of Environmental and Occupational Health, in the Wisconsin Division of Public Health. Register […]

$30

Emissions from Composting

Online

This webinar will focus on air emissions associated with different methods of composting and the subsequent emissions when composted manure is applied to cropland. Find out more here.

Free

Cover Crop Seeding Field Demonstration

Field is located 4 mi. South of Independence, WI. North of the intersection of HWY 93 & Co Road XX

Come see how simple cover crops can be! Farmers will demonstrate multiple planting methods: Fenning S2S Interseeder Custom made seeders Traditional seeders Broadcast seeders Don't miss the two guest speakers: • Gary Fennig, Fennig Equipment • Matt Oemichen, Short Lane Ag Supply

Adapting to Climate Change While Balancing Water and Air Resources with Farm Viability

Online

It is critical to maintain and support practices available to farms that help make them more resilient to the effects of a changing climate. Improved feed management has the capacity to save money through greater feed efficiency. Combining this with better manure management also offers farms the opportunity to better adapt to extreme weather, while […]

Free

Using the NRCS Solid-Liquid Separation Handbook

Online

NRCS developed a new technical document entitled “Solid-Liquid Separation Alternatives for Manure Handling and Treatment.” This document brings together both the theory behind solid-liquid separation and the practical application of many different separation technologies.

Free

Farmer Rancher Grant Writing

Online

This webinar will help guide participants through the process of submitting a grant proposal to NCR-SARE's Farmer Rancher grant program. Join Joan Benjamin, NCR-SARE Farmer Rancher Grant Program Coordinator, to learn how to write a strong proposal and project budget and where to get help. Join the webinar online here.

Free
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Environmental Workshop

These workshops are geared toward community leaders, local town and county officials, conservation specialists, dairy farmers, and area community members. Both workshops will feature an innovative manure applications panel, a producer-led watershed panel, in-field farm tours, and discussions on other relevant rural issues.

$30

Phenological Whiplash in Lakes

Online

This webinar will discuss how the increasing unpredictability of seasonal environmental cues in lakes will lead to mistimed ecological interactions and evolutionary selection pressures that may reduce the response diversity of ecosystems.

Free

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