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.
Cultivating Commitment: Using Collective Action and Motivational Strategies for Persistent Conservation in the Western Lake Erie Basin with Heather Craska
Addressing water quality challenges and Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) in the Western Lake Erie Basin is fundamentally a collective action problem. While temporary financial incentives can encourage individual farmers to try a practice, this often results in fragmented adoption scattered across the landscape rather than the coordinated, watershed-scale coverage required for meaningful ecological impact. Approaching…
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…
Virtual Cover Crop Chats
VirtualAn informal space to exchange cover crop ideas and troubleshoot challenges with fellow farmers.
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.
Solar and Farmland: Navigating Local Land Use, Conservation, and Farm Economics
VirtualAs solar energy development continues to grow across Illinois, agrivoltaics is being explored as a way to balance renewable energy production, diversify income streams, and conserve farmland. Agrivoltaics is a developing field exploring how to integrate solar energy production alongside agricultural production. New projects are prompting community leaders to consider the potential benefits and tradeoffs…
The Land Grant University We Need Today: Bridging the Divide Between Academia and Farmers
VirtualJoin the Soil and Water Conservation Society for the most attended presentation from SWCS’s SOLD OUT 2026 International Annual Conference, “The Land Grant University We Need Today: Bridging the Divide and Harmonizing Academia and Farmers.” Opportunities for farmers to benefit from land-grant university research and support are expansive and urgently needed, but transformation is necessary.…
Building Your Food Forest with Dr. Silvia Abel-Caines
Garlic eScape Farm 14115 Kishwaukee Valley Rd, Woodstock, ILThis event is designed to encourage organizations to consider agroforestry as a part of their land management strategies, but we welcome anyone that wants to learn more on the topics of agroforestry and silvopasture. The day’s programming is jam-packed full of tips, tricks for perennial woodland owners/operators curious to start or enhance their forest farm…
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.
Soil Health In Service Training
Elkhart County 4-H Fairgrounds 17746 County Rd. 34, Goshen, INJoin educators from across the Midwest to build skills for communicating soil health concepts. In the field, participants will evaluate the relationship between soil health and water management focusing on irrigation and edge of field practices. Participants will learn from professional communicators and share best practices on how to engage diverse audiences on soil management…