Illinois Soil Health Week
Throughout the week, the Illinois Stewardship Alliance will bring together farmers and eaters, organizations, state leaders, legislators, and other partners to virtually celebrate with a variety of presentations and resources. Each day features different voices in the food and farm system presenting on a range of topics that focus on how powerful and important the…
Regenerative Grazing: Marketplace Webinar Series
VirtualAre you an agricultural professional or technical service provider seeking answers for your farmer and landowner clients about raising livestock regeneratively for profit? Join the Embarras Grazing Partnership for a 2 part series examining value chains and profitability potential of pasture-based livestock production! Part 1: Value Chains Thursday, April 19, 11:00AM – 12:30PM (CT) In part…
Rotational No-Till Series: Part 2
VirtualPart 2: Let's Talk About No-Till "Regenerative" Agriculture (Live Q&A) Farmers across the country are adopting no-till practices at an astonishing rate, fueled in large part by several popular books and resources. While there’s no doubt a reduction in tillage is beneficial for soil, water, and microorganisms, is it possible that we may have over-corrected…
ISU Cover Crop Field Day
Illinois State University Research Farm 25578 ISU Farm Lane, Lexington, IL, United StatesCome see cover crops in action! Cover Crop Fields Tour Educational activities for children ages 6 and up Updates on current research, including: Pennycress, Cereal Rye, Winter Wheat Successes and challenges of implementation Increasing Farm Profit Ecosystem Services Event is free to attend! Learn more here.
Strength in Numbers – Assessing the Impact of New and Emerging Field Crop Diseases
Changes in climate and production practices have led to new and emerging diseases in corn and soybeans. Assessing the impact of new diseases across a broad geography has traditionally taken extensive time. However, the formation of the Crop Protection Network, a multinational group of university research and extension pest management specialists, has created a platform…
Alphabet Soup: Making Conservation Conventional
VirtualJoin Sand County Foundation and the Illinois Sustainable Ag Partnership for an interactive and strategy-building discussion based on Sand County Foundation's recent report, "Making Conservation Conventional: Perspectives from a behavioral design process with farmers in the midwestern United States." Taking an interactive design approach to the foundational issues of farmer adoption of conservation practices, Sand County Foundation and…
Soil Regen – Regenerate, Restore, Reclaim
Join Soil Regen as they meet with special guest, Adam Daugherty, to discuss soil health and cover crops.
Zea mays L. | Maize | Corn: Its Science, Culture, and Cuisine
The National Agricultural Library is hosting a three-part webinar series that will highlight global food staples and the intersections of global cuisines with USDA research, social sciences, and history. The series will focus on maize and corn and its past, present, and future role in food, culture, and society. Key areas of focus for the series will…
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…
FSA Farmer Loan Programs
Please join the Iowa Organic Association, Brian Gossling and Luke Hawkins from the Iowa Farm Service Agency (FSA) for a webinar on Tuesday, May 25 at 12 p.m. CST, to learn about a few loan programs offered by FSA. Farm Storage Facility Loans (FSFL) provide low-interest financing for producers to store, handle and/or transport eligible commodities…
Integrating Water Quality Management and Natural Hazard Resilience through Nature Based Solutions
Water quality management and natural hazards such as flood, drought, wildfire, etc. can be closely related, and natural hazards can have major impacts on water resources – both in terms of quality and quantity. When implemented strategically, nature-based practices can create co-benefits by improving water quality and increasing community resilience to hazards. Understanding these co-benefits…
Webinar: Making Riparian Forest Buffers Work For You
Join Wisconsin Land+Water, Wisconsin NRCS, and the Savanna Institute for a webinar series. Every final Thursday, the Savanna Institute will introduce an agroforestry practice and talk more about the ways it can benefit your local land, water and communities. Riparian forest buffers are combinations of trees and shrubs designed to mitigate the impacts of land…