Conservation Professional Training ProgramConservation Professional Training ProgramLooking 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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This grazing field day will focus on pasture management, soil health, regenerative agriculture as well as opportunities that are provided by Conservation Districts and the National Conservation Resource Service. Learn more here.
Join us to learn about approaches to planning for woodland conversion and trees into pasture including tools and methods, mapping, tree spacing and patterning, and more. Register here.
This event will feature expert knowledge and farm information focused on the Five Principles of Soil Health and especially livestock integration. Learn more here.
The G-Team is hosted by GrassWorks as a networking opportunity for interagency grazing professionals throughout Wisconsin. This meeting will focus on giving attendees a chance to share what they have been working on this year and will feature brief updates on the Ask-A-Grazier groups and the Midwest Grazing Exchange platform. Register here.
Join this webinar explore options and opportunities when planning for the winter months in a livestock grazing operation. During the winter months, grazing operations often face their biggest challenges when dealing with both environmental degradation of the natural resources and livestock health. Many times, there is more than one way to protect resources while keeping […]
Grazing livestock can be a profitable endeavor on par or exceeding the returns from other agricultural enterprises. Aaron Pape, grazier and Farm Business Instructor for Northeast WI Technical College, will demonstrate how management choices like extended grazing, winder feeding strategies, overheads, and enterprise selection impact the farm's finances. Register here.
This Zoom meeting will be a great opportunity to learn about what the National Grazing Land Coalition (NatGLC) has been up to, ask grazing related questions, network with other graziers from around the country, and let the NatGLC know what successes, challenges, and/or ideas you might have! Register here.
January 26 (9:00-11:30 a.m.) - We will start with a welcome from Alliance for the Great Lakes and the Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance. This will be followed by a panel session made of farmers and nutritionists discussing their use of cover crops as alternative forages. Come ready to ask questions! We will wrap up the event with […]
Jeff Duchene, NRCS Grazing Lands Specialist, will review the recommended order of installing facilitating practices for prescribed grazing. He will review example grazing plans and discuss the order practices will be installed based on information gathered from the producer during the conservation planning process, as well as logistical considerations of how practices may impact the […]
REGENERATIVE GRAZING CAN BUILD HEALTHY SOILS AND SUPPORT FARM PROFITABILITY. Are you, a beef producer hoping to improve your environmental and economic outcomes? a row crop farmer looking for a herd to graze your cover crops, or looking to add livestock into your rotation? a landowner exploring additional revenue streams? Then join for an interactive […]
These meetings feature topics on: how to get up and going with your grazing operation; fine tuning and optimizing the grass on your existing operation; and grazing cover crops, how do they fit into the grazing operation. For more information on the talks and speakers, make sure to follow this link. Wednesday, March 24, 7:00 […]
Help take a forage cutting amid 40 head of beef cattle managing 60 acres of CRP mid-contract management. Help determine how much longer the cattle should be grazing before the stubble height threshold is achieved. The second site we will visit an organic farm who have been prescribed grazing cattle on their Fish and Wildlife […]
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