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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National Cover Crop Summit

With a batch of fresh topics, this free online event will bring today's top leaders and innovators in cover crop management together for two days of virtual learning — allowing you to gain new strategies and takeaways to implement into your operation in 2022. Info here.

Effective Cover Cropping – Maximizing Benefits, Minimizing Risk

Bringing forward information and data from several years and data from assorted research locations, Dr. Gruver discusses both gains and hurdles in cover crops and soil health. Reducing Cost of Failure and Quickly Learning From Failure. “Fail Fast, Succeed Faster” Dr. Joel Gruver, Professor of Soil Science at Western Illinois University brings new soil health […]

Producing Vegetables in Perennial Dutch White Clover

Lincoln Fishman of Sawyer Farm in Worthington, MA will talk through his no-till systems featuring details on planting into standing clover. Lincoln started with undersown clover a decade ago and has moved toward his current system as a way to both reduce tillage and address his long-term sustainability goals. He approaches his work with an […]

Soil Health Learning Circles (Bilingual) – Cover Crops for Soil Health

Please join us this spring for Soil Health Virtual Learning Circles featuring presenters on soil health and soil conservation topics for your farm. The six one-hour Learning Circles will be done via video conferencing and taught in English and Spanish. Info here.

UW Cover Crop Management in Conventional Corn-Soybean Production Systems Plot Tour

 Join us on July 06 from 1:00PM-3:30PM at Arlington Ag Research Station to visit our cover crop research plots, check equipment and exchange knowledge with University Specialists and fellow farmers adopting cover crops in their crop production systems. Meet at 12:45PM Public Events Building, Arlington Agricultural Research Station N695 Hopkins Road, Arlington, WI Need additional […]

WiWiC Field Day: Sweet Springs Farm

The field day will cover a wide variety of cover crops growing and many of the prairie and other perennials will be blooming. All women farmers, landowners and conservationists from Vernon, Crawford, Grant and surrounding counties are welcome to attend-- whatever your background, from beginners to experts! Features include: a large prairie up on top […]

Cover Crop Field Day

Cover Crops are key to soil health at the Farley Center. Tour and discuss cover crop varieties and their uses in the field with the Farley Center's Farm Manager, Seth Riley. Rue Genger from UW Madison will also demonstrate a new walk-behind roller crimper designed by USDA inventor Ted Kornecki. The crimper is used for […]

Grazing cover crops

Hosted by Roger Bindl, at S10620 Weidner Rd, Spring Green. This pasture walk will be focused on grazing cover crops and will showcase information collected as part of an ongoing research project with the Sand County Foundation and four graziers from SSWIG. Info here.

Wisconsin Cover Crop Conference

New for winter of 2022, the Wisconsin Cover Crop Conference bridges the gap between the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection producer-led workshop and the annual Discovery Farms Conference, to allow attendees to attend these three events over two days in the Wisconsin Dells. Beginning on December 13, 2022, attendees will have the […]

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