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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Soil Management for the Small Acreage Farm

Visit Running Hills Farm to see their approach to soil management. Upper Midwest CRAFT farmers Tim and Betsy Pierce will share their strategies to build soil health using cover crops, silage tarps, tillage practices, and scale appropriate equipment to prepare their planting spaces. While their talk will focus on growers on small acreage (5-10 acres), […]

Harvest Your Conservation Potential

Come celebrate fall and harvest season with other women who share your commitment to land conservation! Gather ideas and information for establishing your land conservation plan and how to use the upcoming winter months for planning, research and connections with NRCS. All women farmers, landowners and conservationists from Polk, Barron, Dunn and surrounding counties are […]

Wisconsin Science Festival

Join hundreds of organizations around Wisconsin that connect people with science, technology, engineering, art and math. More than 90 communities and 40,000 people participated last year. Info here.

Urban Nonpoint Source (UNPS) Construction and Urban Targeted Runoff Management (TRM) Grants In BITS: DNR’s BMP Implementation Tracking System

This webinar will be hosted by the WI DNR and UW Madison-Division Extension. It will provide an overview of the BMP Implementation Tracking System (BITS) and the use of this system to submit Urban Nonpoint Source (UNPS) Construction Grant and Urban Targeted Runoff Management (Urban TRM) Grant final reports. This webinar is targeted towards county […]

MKE Women’s Urban Ag Network: Fall Gathering

Join in the Community Room of Urban Ecology Center's Riverside Park location, to learn about urban agriculture! We'll hear from a few amazing women who are doing urban ag work in/near Milwaukee, and also learn about the different programs and resources available to Milwaukee County folks interested in urban agriculture Info here. 

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Understanding Bird Populations and How They Change

October 11 – November 1 (Tuesdays, 7:00 – 8:30 pm each week) In less than a single human lifetime, 2.9 billion breeding adult birds have been lost from the United States and Canada, across every ecosystem, and including some of the most abundant and familiar bird species. In this course we will examine how we […]

Understanding UW-Madison Division of Extension’s new approach to Agriculture Staffing

In response to evolving budgets and needs in the state, Extension has reformulated its approach to agriculture staffing across the state. Please join us for a discussion to understand the changes and provide feedback on how those changes will impact county conservation staff and opportunities for continued collaboration to support agricultural producers in Wisconsin. Heidi […]

How do crop advisors do conservation?

Ever wondered how to engage the private ag consulting world on soil conservation practices? Tune in to a webinar from the Minnesota Office for Soil Health, to discuss the findings of recent interviews with MN crop advisors who work with conservation practices. Participants will learn what difficulties and opportunities crop advisors see for increasing adoption […]

Badger Crop Connect

Tillage Costs and Benefits Dr. Francisco Arriaga, Soil Science Professor and Extension Specialist at UW-Madison Introducing the New Entomology Precision Pest Ecologist Dr. Emily Bick, Precision Pest Ecologist at UW-Madison Info here.

Managing Plant Surplus Carbon to Generate Soil Organic Matter in Regenerative Agriculture

Soil degradation is a global problem. Intensive, chemical-based conventional agriculture focuses on aboveground biomass production and yield and overlooks belowground plant carbon input and plant-soil-microbe associations, leading to declined soil organic matter levels. In this webinar, Dr. Yichao Rui will explain how regenerative agricultural practices such as judicious use of fertilizers, incorporation of legumes, and […]

The Earth Beneath Our Feet: Climate Change and the Soil Loss Crisis

Jo Handelsman, Ph. D, will discuss our soil, the causes for its degradation, its relation to carbon transfer and climate change, and our relation to the issue. The Master Gardeners of Door County, Crossroads at Big Creek, The Ridges Sanctuary, and Waseda Farms are co-presenting this event on Wednesday, October 12 at 7 p.m. at […]

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