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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Exploring Small Grains for Forage and Options for Portable Watering

Online

Are you a young grazier wanting to explore integrating small grains for forage and other uses? How about options for portable watering systems when you are grazing remote pastures? Are you a seasoned grazier with direct experience and/or connections relevant to these topics that could help a beginning grazier get going?

Free

Interseeding Cover Crops, Grazing, & 60″ Corn

Online

Aaron Gillespie farms near Fountain, Minn., and raises conventional/organic row crops, small grains, cover crops, hay, and canning peas. He also rotationally grazes beef. Gillespie built his own interseeder to incorporate cover into his 30” and 60” corn. Learn more here.

Free

What Makes A Wetland Internationally Important?

Online

The Lower Wisconsin Riverway stretches 92 miles from the Prairie du Sac Dam to its confluence with the Mississippi River. A vital, wild recreational and educational resource, it also harbors important cultural sites and is one of the nation's most significant riverine systems.

Free

Creating or Supporting a Healthy Lakes & Rivers Grant Program for Your County’s Lakes and/or Associations

Online

Healthy Lakes & Rivers (www.healthylakeswi.com) is a statewide initiative promoting and often funding five relatively simple and inexpensive best practices to improve habitat and prevent erosion on shoreland properties. This webinar will include staff from Marquette and Polk counties and DNR. They will share a program overview, approaches for counties to participate, how to provide […]

Free

Seedling Genetics and Soil Fertility – Know What You are Planting and How to Car for It

Online

During each rotation of a planted forest, landowners have a single opportunity to choose the appropriate genetics for their long-term investment. We encourage forest landowners to plant the best genetic quality seedlings possible. The benefits from establishing highly productive families, in combination with good silvicultural practices, will result in large financial returns.

Free

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

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