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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PaddockTrac: A Web-Based Mobile Application for Managed Grazing Systems

Join us for this webinar in which we will discuss a new wireless sensor, tethered to a smartphone and GIS-based web application, built to improve the efficiency of measuring/monitoring/managing forage systems. Our presentation explains background information about the ecological and economic reasons to invest in measuring pasture productivity. We describe how PaddockTrac improves the process […]

Usable Science for Producers: Helping Cattle Producers Make More Informed Decisions about Soil Carbon and Grazing

This webinar will provide semi-arid rangeland cattle producers with supplemental grazing and soils information coupled with research data to make informed management decisions. Join us as we discuss why soils may respond differently to cattle grazing at various locations. During the webinar, we will highlight some grazing and soils terminology and identify research gaps that […]

Lambing, Kidding, and Calving on Pasture

Join to hear how we handle lambing, kidding, and calving, including what to have on hand, helpful tools, recognizing imminent birth, how a normal birth proceeds, and when and how to intervene. What do we do after the birth? How do we select mothers that do the work, so we don't have to? This session […]

Grass-Fed Winter Workshop

Hear from managed grazing and perennial based agriculture experts, local farmers, along with representatives from area butcher shops, Wisconsin Meadows, and the Livestock Compass. Learn about the Livestock Compass with Jim Munsch and how to measure your farm profitability while exploring different marketing opportunities with everything from Equity, local co-ops, to direct marketing from some […]

30th GrassWorks Grazing Conference

We are excited to be planning a live, in person conference again for 2022. We have learned a lot this past year and are looking forward to incorporating some amazing new networking opportunities with this conference in addition to the great content we have brought to you in the past. Info here.

Green Lake County Grazing Day

Join fellow livestock graziers to hear from: UW Agronomy Specialist Mark Renz on pasture weeds Sauk County Land and Water Conservation Technician Serge Koenig comparing the economics of row cropping to rotational grazing Sarah Lloyd of Grassland 2.0 on marketing opportunities for graziers UW-Madison Division of Extension Agricultural Educator Ben Jenkins on how to assess […]

Medicinal Grazing and Unexpected Outcomes

Chemical dewormers for small ruminants are becoming less effective at a startling rate. Join Kirsten Robertson on her journey to becoming chemical dewormer free with her goats and sheep. In the process of mimicking nature, her farm sprang alive and so did she. Join us! You won’t be sorry. Info here. 

Enterprise Budgeting and Economic Decision Support Tools for Grazing

The environmental benefits of Management Intensive Rotational Grazing (MIRG) are well known. Farms under MIRG management experience less soil erosion and nutrient loss than row crops or continuous grazing management. However, there is a stigma that grazing is less economical than cropping. In this workshop, we will show how you can demonstrate that grazing can […]

Grazing Cover Crops

Justin & Kendra Seeger are refining the art of rotational grazing with their beef herd by utilizing forage from perineal pastures during the growing season and cover crops during the winter. They’ve been grazing cover crops since 2016 and are achieving their goal of grazing all 12 months right here in central Wisconsin! Justin is […]

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