Decision Support Tools and Climate Monitoring for Agriculture | Climate Series
VirtualThe Midwestern Regional Climate Center is the regional host for free, online historical and near real-time climate and weather monitoring. Utilizing data from federally-funded weather station networks, the MRCC has developed several tools and resources that may be useful and usable to the agricultural community for planning and risk assessment purposes. This presentation will highlight…
Learning from Leaders: Accelerating Conservation Drainage Adoption
This webinar series explores the adoption of conservation drainage across disciplines, regions, and landscapes. Through five, 75-minute sessions, leading stakeholders will share unique perspectives, engage in dialogue, and generate a set of recommendations to be used to advance conservation drainage adoption locally and nationally. Webinar 1: Social Science Perspectives January 26, 3:00 p.m. to 4:15…
Learning from Leaders: Accelerating Conservation Drainage Adoption
This webinar series explores the adoption of conservation drainage across disciplines, regions, and landscapes. Through five, 75-minute sessions, leading stakeholders will share unique perspectives, engage in dialogue, and generate a set of recommendations to be used to advance conservation drainage adoption locally and nationally. Webinar 1: Social Science Perspectives January 26, 3:00 p.m. to 4:15…
Integrating climate change research and outreach in the Midwest: lessons from the social sciences
VirtualAdapting to and mitigating the effects of climate change is a technical, social, and political challenge that will require significant changes across all aspects of society. This is particularly the case in the Midwest, which is expected to receive an influx of climate refugees over the coming century. In this talk, Stuart Carlton, Assistant Director…
Ground and Surface Water Quality Webinar Series
The UW-Madison Division of Extension’s Agriculture Water Quality Program is hosting a biweekly webinar series in early 2023 on important factors impacting ground and surface water quality. The winter webinar series is supported by Wisconsin Farmers Union. Each webinar will be an hour, starting at 11:00am, and will have one continuing education credit for certified…
Ground and Surface Water Quality Webinar Series
The UW-Madison Division of Extension’s Agriculture Water Quality Program is hosting a biweekly webinar series in early 2023 on important factors impacting ground and surface water quality. The winter webinar series is supported by Wisconsin Farmers Union. Each webinar will be an hour, starting at 11:00am, and will have one continuing education credit for certified…
Ground and Surface Water Quality Webinar Series
The UW-Madison Division of Extension’s Agriculture Water Quality Program is hosting a biweekly webinar series in early 2023 on important factors impacting ground and surface water quality. The winter webinar series is supported by Wisconsin Farmers Union. Each webinar will be an hour, starting at 11:00am, and will have one continuing education credit for certified…
Avoided Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Agricultural Conservation Easements
VirtualAmerican Farmland Trust and The Conservation Fund will summarize a new report that estimates the greenhouse gas (GHG) benefits of an agricultural conservation easement on a 103-acre farm in East Peoria, Illinois. The work demonstrates an important benefit of farmland protection and lays the groundwork for AFT’s development of a national calculator tool in 2023,…
Seeding Your Covers Seminiar
Parkland Community College: Tony Noel Ag Applications Center 2400 W Bradley Ave., ChampaignDiscussion on the key indicators for soil health. Explaining the management practices & decisions that lead to improved soil function to explain the 'why'
Agriculture Data Pilot – Conservation, Crop Insurance During Wet Spring of 2019
VirtualIn an exciting public-private partnership, the United States Department of Agriculture worked with Meridian Institute’s AGree Initiative and the University of Illinois to evaluate conservation and crop insurance data in six states (IA, IL, IN, MN, MO, and SD) affected by extremely wet spring weather in 2019. The unusual weather that year prevented planting on…
National Cover Crop Survey Opportunity
Why do you plant cover crops, or why don't you? What do you want to know about cover crops? Where do you get your information about them? What experiences do you have? Share your thoughts in the National Cover Crop Survey! This will be the seventh National Cover Crop Survey conducted since 2012 by the Sustainable…
2023 Regenerative Grazing Winter Field Days
Field Day 3504 Prairietown Road, Bunker Hill, IL, United StatesAre you an agricultural professional or technical service provider seeking answers for your farmer and landowner clients about raising livestock regeneratively? Join the Embarras Grazing Partnership for a series of regenerative grazing intensive workshops over two on-farm days! For more information and the agenda please visit: https://www.thelandconnection.org/event/2023-regenerative-grazing-winter-field-days/ What: 2023 Regenerative Grazing Winter Field Days When: March…