Illinois Soybean Growers Farm Business Summit
This farm business and legacy conference offers farmers a valuable opportunity to look into operations and focus on the long-term future of their land and family. These events provide practical tools and guidance on topics like succession planning, financial management, and navigating legal complexities. There will also be a panel with The Nature Conservancy. Whether…
Soil Health Sounds Great — But Is It Paying Yet?
Adopting cover crops and no-till is widely known to improve soil health long term — but how do the economics pencil out early on? This webinar shares two years of replicated trial data from Illinois comparing no-till and cover crops (alone and together) against conventional tillage for soybean yield and profitability, along with insights on…
Life Hacks Over Lunch: A Meet-up Series for Watershed Professionals
This free, virtual meet-up series is a peer-learning opportunity for watershed professionals to share ideas and advice for solving real-life challenges of watershed projects. If you work with farmers and communities on watershed-scale projects to improve water quality and have ever found yourself thinking, “I don’t want to recreate the wheel,” this meet-up series is…
Life Hacks Over Lunch: A Meet-up Series for Watershed Professionals
This free, virtual meet-up series is a peer-learning opportunity for watershed professionals to share ideas and advice for solving real-life challenges of watershed projects. If you work with farmers and communities on watershed-scale projects to improve water quality and have ever found yourself thinking, “I don’t want to recreate the wheel,” this meet-up series is…
Illinois Soybean Growers Farm Business Summit
This farm business and legacy conference offers farmers a valuable opportunity to look into operations and focus on the long-term future of their land and family. These events provide practical tools and guidance on topics like succession planning, financial management, and navigating legal complexities. There will also be a panel with The Nature Conservancy. Whether…
Iowa Learning Farms Weekly Webinar
Join Iowa Learning Farms weekly webinars on Wednesdays at 12pm CT. The webinars dive into a variety of topics each week related to conservation agriculture, improving water quality, farmer communications, nutrient management, and more.
How to Buy a Farm Webinar Series
VirtualIllinois FarmLink and Land For Good are hosting a three-part webinar series about the farm purchase process. It is designed for the first time farm buyer, who can often be overwhelmed by the many complexities of the farm buying process. The three sessions will cover how to find farmland opportunities, the purchase process, alternatives to the standard approach of using listings…
Beginning Farmer Retreat
Pilgrim Heights Camp and Retreat Center 3005 E Ave, Montour, IAThis annual event brings beginning farmers together to network, plan and discuss ways to improve their farms while helping to build a sense of community among this fast-growing farming demographic. The theme of the Beginning Farmer Retreat alternates yearly between land access and business. The 2025 Beginning Farmer Retreat’s theme is land access. It is…
Working Together: Watershed Partnerships, Credit Trading, and Performance-Based Conservation
VirtualJoin the Sand County Foundation to discuss the state of funding, challenges, and recommendations for programs that promote on-farm conservation activities that improve water quality in the Upper Mississippi Basin. They will share how state-based water quality trading between point and non-point sources has gained momentum as a way to meet nutrient reduction strategies. Municipalities…
Iowa Learning Farms Weekly Webinar
Join Iowa Learning Farms weekly webinars on Wednesdays at 12pm CT. The webinars dive into a variety of topics each week related to conservation agriculture, improving water quality, farmer communications, nutrient management, and more.