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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Digging into Soil Health: The Role of Soil Microbes

Online

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.

Free

Crop & Pest Management Connect

Online

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 […]

$55

Standard Measurements of Soil Health

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 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.

Free

How’s My Waterway

Online

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.

Free

Wisconsin Salt Wise

Online

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. […]

Free

Nutrient Management Practices and Their Co-Benefits

Online

Nutrient management practices are critical for reducing nutrient loads downstream. But what about the other benefits nutrient management practices provide outside of water quality improvement? Tune into this webinar to hear about the co-benefits of nutrient management practices including pollinator habitat, carbon sequestration, and flood mitigation. Register here.

Free

Helping Farmers Help the Land Through Climate Smart-Farming

Online

The climate is changing in different ways across the United States. Participate in this webinar training to learn about how the climate has changed in your area and what that means for farmers and ranchers. This presentation focuses on the 4 ways producers can adapt: • Assess landscape vulnerability • Improve soil health • Increase […]

Free

Salt your Fries, Not Our Freshwater

Online

Is your community oversalting roadways and drinking water? What are the hidden costs of excessive salt use to our roads, bridges, vehicles, wildlife, human health, and freshwater resources? Learn from municipalities and a university that have adopted best winter maintenance practices to keep pavement safe, save money, and cut their addictions to salt. Register here.

Free

Wetlands Key to Middle Cedar Watershed

Online

The virtual field day will highlight public and private partnerships working together to implement wetlands to reduce flooding and improve water quality in the Middle Cedar Watershed and beyond. Learn more here.

Free

Drought Calendars for Specialty Crops

Online

This webinar will highlight a recent project engaging specialty crop growers in the Midwest to better understand the seasonality of their decisions and drought information needs. The project has resulted in graphical decision calendars for grape, apple, cranberry, and irrigated potato production.

Free

Northeast Wisconsin Virtual Field Tours

Online

You’ll get to learn about five amazing conservation projects happening across northeast Wisconsin! The event will include five short videos, each featuring different regional projects and the opportunity to interact with the project partners about wetlands, wild rice, waterfowl, and more. Learn more here.

Free

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