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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Biochar for innovative products - on the use of biochar beyond agricultural soil uses (e.g. animal feed, building materials & composites, etc.). Learn more here.
A large portion of the Rock River Basin consists of wetlands that were converted to croplands. The Actually Restorable Wetland (ARW) map helps locate suitable wetland restoration sites based on both property boundaries and ecological factors.
The annual summit is built for farmers searching for an advantage in today's marketplace. Our instructors are real farmers who practice what they teach, from tactics to build soil resilience, increase water storage capacity and decrease costly inputs and programs.
Badger Crop Connect is a new crop production webinar series developed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension Crops and Soils Program for the 2020 growing season. Badger Crop Connect’s goal is to bring agronomists, crops consultants and farmers timely crop updates for Wisconsin.
Maximizing the nutrient availability and retention of applied manure for the upcoming crops begins with proper handling and application to the land. During dry conditions, it is even more important as those nutrients are especially vulnerable to being flushed from the system during future rain events.
This presentation will provide an overview of the NRI and will include highlights from the 2017 NRI data release (to be released in September 2020) as well as an explanation of the types of data available and how to get access to it.
Meet your local Cedar Creek family farmers; learn about agriculture, soil, animals, dairy farming, products and more! Learn more here.
This webinar is intended to help technicians and educators work with landowners to help them better understand and navigate methods for reducing GHG emissions from soil through soil carbon and N management while also addressing other social or economic considerations.
The Showcase will demonstrate how cover cropping improves soil water infiltration. Improved soil reduces surface water runoff and farmland erosion. The challenges of runoff will also be discussed during the Showcase. Learn more here.
As a landowner, you want to be a responsible steward of your land and maintain its natural assets for future generations. Soil is one of the most important assets of land, but it’s not always obvious how to work with an operator to protect it. A good relationship and a strong, fair lease can put […]
This biochar webinar series will provide an introduction to biochar and review some current advances in biochar science, with subsequent discussion of nursery and landscape research and applications. Learn more here.
The meetings will include topics related to the value of soil organic matter and how to build it (Matt Ruark), lessons learned about corn nitrogen management in Wisconsin and the Midwest (Carrie Laboski), and challenges of liquid dairy manure management in Wisconsin (Francisco Arriaga).
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