This conference is designed to provide drainage authorities, their staff, and their consultants, both those well seasoned and those that are new to public drainage, with insights on decision making and communication as well as knowledge on both legal and technical issues impacting the management of water.
The Strategic Farming webinar series will provide up to date, research based information to help you optimize your crop management strategies for 2023. Pull up a chair and join in or bring the conversation with you as you go about your day. These online sessions will be very informal and open to all interested. Each session will start with a brief presentation by the discussion leaders for the day, followed by discussion framed around farmer/participant questions on the topic. Nitrogen is a dynamic nutrient. Nitrogen availability and fertilizer need are heavily influenced by environmental factors like soil type, rainfall, and temperature. For this webinar, join Dan Kaiser, Extension nutrient management specialist, and Brad Carlson, Extension educator - water, as they discuss how current climate factors are influencing our nitrogen management strategies.
The Minnesota Erosion Control Association (MECA) strives to effectively communicate erosion/sediment control techniques and best practices, and encourages the use of those practices. Since stormwater management is such an integral part of erosion and sedimentation control, MECA also actively promotes new and innovative stormwater management practices.
Join us to learn about cover crop research and advancements across the Midwest during our state reports on Monday, January 23, at 1:00 p.m. and continue through Tuesday morning, January 24, with additional updates and working sessions. The SDSHC Soil Health Conference will begin at 1 p.m. at the same location on Tuesday, Jan. 24, and will end at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 25. Attendees must register for the SDSHC Soil Health conference separately.
Where does common ground exist? In ideas? Experiences? In ecosystems? In the physical spaces where we live and farm? Perhaps common ground exists wherever we make space for it – wherever we recognize the opportunity for connection, and wherever we acknowledge our shared impact on our land, water and communities. At this year’s annual conference, we are On Common Ground. We know common ground may be less visible than our differences. Take time to look for it, think about it and choose to enter those common ideas and conversations. We invite you to enter that space – the gaps in the apparent and visible – to “fill in the blank” and explore being On Common Ground. The PFI conference experience includes a wide range of farmer-led educational content and plenty of time for making meaningful connections: 50+ sessions, hundreds of attendees, 80+ exhibitors and many fun activities including the return of the PFI dinner & potluck.
The Strategic Farming webinar series will provide up to date, research based information to help you optimize your crop management strategies for 2023. Pull up a chair and join in or bring the conversation with you as you go about your day. These online sessions will be very informal and open to all interested. Each session will start with a brief presentation by the discussion leaders for the day, followed by discussion framed around farmer/participant questions on the topic. For this webinar, join Anthony Hanson, Extension educator - crops, and other IPM specialists as they discuss how to plan for corn insect pests in 2023 and manage insecticide resistance concerns.
The Strategic Farming webinar series will provide up to date, research based information to help you optimize your crop management strategies for 2023. Pull up a chair and join in or bring the conversation with you as you go about your day. These online sessions will be very informal and open to all interested. Each session will start with a brief presentation by the discussion leaders for the day, followed by discussion framed around farmer/participant questions on the topic. For this webinar, join Ed Usset, U of MN Extension grain marketing economist, and Assistant State Climatologist Pete Boulay from DNR as they look ahead to 2023 and discuss weather, economic and supply chain forecasts.
This training will cover the basic concept of determining hydrology for common conservation practices. We will review concepts such as runoff, curve numbers, peak discharges, and hydrographs. Students will learn about reading contour maps and delineating watersheds through example problems. By the end of the two sessions students should be able to delineate a watershed as well as be able to obtain the values needed to determine a peak discharge from the delineated watershed using EFH2.
Learn about the latest Harmful Algal Bloom Research, discuss examples of effective bloom management, and learn about the latest technologies being used to tackle this global issue. Admission is free.