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…
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…
ICCON: Cover Crop Termination
In March's ICCON call, a panel of cover crop farmers will share their experiences with cover crop termination techniques. Jim Isermann, Pete Fandel, and Frank Rademacher are all farmers in Central Illinois who use their agronomy background and on-farm experiences to hep farmers make effective conservation decisions. During this call attendees will learn about several…
2023 National Cover Crop Summit
VirtualThe National Cover Crop Summit returns March 14-16, 2023, with another can't-miss lineup of today's most successful cover cropper adopters, researchers and agronomists sharing their best seeding strategies, grazing and feeding tips, variety selection secrets and more. Speakers include: Jim Stute, Beat Glyphosate-Resistant Weeds by Planting Green Ryan Scmid, How to Turn Tillage Equipment into a…
Regenerative Grazing with the Embarras Grazing Partnership
Session 3 | Grazing with different cattle breeds Tuesday, January 10th | 11:00 AM CST For our third session, Travis Meteer, Extension Educator in Commercial Agriculture for U of Illinois Extension, will discuss how to select cattle breeds for regenerative grazing scenarios. He will be accompanied by a farmer/grazier for informal, informative discussion! Each session…