The North Central Region Soil Health Nexus is a university-led team dedicated to increasing access to research-based soil health knowledge, extension, and resources.
The team was created in 2015 with funding from the North Central Region Water Network. The team is structured around research, extension, and outreach, and resources and communications with representatives from all 12 North Central Region states.
Soil Health Digital Café Series
The Soil Health Nexus is hosting a series of informal soil health webinars featuring Extension soil health experts and researchers from across the region, who will discuss the latest soil health research, resources, and news. The webinars will take place monthly; they will be an hour long, with a 20-minute presentation, followed by 10 minutes of Q&A, and then a casual 30-minute Digital Café where attendees can continue discussing the topic in more depth with Soil Health Nexus members.
The Wisconsin Cover Crop Data Network: Reflections on 5 years of building a participatory data engagement and visualization platform
Wednesday, December 10th at 2 pm CT
Join us for the December edition of the Soil Health Nexus Digital Café, spotlighting the Wisconsin Cover Crop Data Network (WCCDN)! The WCCDN began in 2020 with just 15 farmers and the goal of addressing a gap in real-world local data about cover crop performance across Wisconsin. In 2025, they have 50-60 farmers participating each year, representing farms of different systems and sizes, from 3 to 10,000 acres. Together, they’ve built a unique farmer-led dataset and sharing platform on cover crop management and results in the region. They have learned about farmers’ experimentation and innovation with cover cropping and the types of data useful to farmers as they adapt cover cropping to their farm systems, locations, times, and other resources.
This session features expert speakers, Mrill Ingram, Participatory Action Research Scientist at UW-Madison, and Dan Marzu, North Central Region Outreach Specialist and Nutrient & Pest Management Program, UW–Madison Division of Extension.
