Tag Archives: farmers

16Oct/24

Drought Preparedness and Adaptation

October 16, 2024Soil Health2024, agriculture, digital cafe, dought, extension, farmers, farming, science, soil, soil health, soil health webinar, soil health webinars, webinar, webinar seriesLeslie Johnson

While many of us have been drought-free this spring and early summer, the summer heat and dry conditions have led to the return of drought, particularly across portions of the Ohio River Basin. Parts of Ohio are now seeing the worst drought since 1988 and parts of Great Plains are in multi-year droughts. This webinar is a collaboration of The Current Webinar Series and the Soil Health Nexus Digital Café and featured professionals in Kansas, Minnesota and Ohio discussing how producers in their state are preparing and adapting to drought, whether they are currently facing dry conditions or not. This webinar was originally broadcasted October 17, 2024.

21Aug/24

How to Help Growers Start

August 21, 2024Soil Health2024, agriculture, cover crops, crops, digital cafe, extension, farmers, farming, organic matter, soil, soil amendments, soil health, soil health webinar, soil health webinars, soils, webinar, webinar seriesLeslie Johnson

This Digital Café features Lee Briese, an independent crop consultant, who has scouted over 1.25 million crop acres weekly. In this session, Lee provides invaluable insights on how growers can begin implementing minimal tillage or no-till practices, cover crops, and intercropping while keeping their risks low. This webinar was originally broadcasted August 21, 2024.

17Jul/24

Activating the soil starts at the surface

July 17, 2024Soil Health2024, agriculture, cover crops, crops, digital cafe, erosion, farmers, farming, organic matter, research, runoff, science, soil, soil amendments, soil health, soil health webinar, soil health webinars, soil organic matter, soil tilth, soils, webinar, webinar seriesLeslie Johnson

Conservation management brings soil to life. Measuring these changes in soil life can be simple and yet robust as indicators of key soil functions. This Digital Café featured Alan Franzluebbers, Ecologist with the USDA Agricultural Research Service, who described how soil-test biological activity can indicate improved soil health. This webinar was originally broadcasted July 17, 2024.

19Jun/24

Manure and Microbes: Are they the key to sustainable crop production?

June 19, 2024Manure, Soil Health2024, digital cafe, farmers, manure, manure and soil health, manure application, manure benefits, manure value, microbes, microbes in manure, new york, research, soil, soil amendments, soil health webinar, soil science, webinar, webinar seriesLeslie Johnson

This Digital Café featured Quirine Ketterings, leader of the NMSP, who shared the value of manure project and discoveries related to soil microbial health indicators thus far. This webinar was originally broadcasted June 19, 2024.

15May/24

Exploring nine years of the Wisconsin’s Producer Led Watershed Program and the new Soil Health program

May 15, 2024Soil Health2024, agriculture, cover crops, crops, digital cafe, farmers, farming, producer-led efforts, soil, soil health, soil health webinar, soil health webinars, soils, webinar, webinar series, wisconsinLeslie Johnson

In this Digital Café, Randy Zogbaum, Soil Health Specialist for DATCP, discusses Wisconsin’s growing Producer-Led Watershed program and DATCP’s soil health programming. This webinar was originally broadcasted May 15, 2024.

19Apr/24

Soil health and nutrient management: What it can and cannot do

April 19, 2024Manure, Soil Health2024, agriculture, digital cafe, extension, farmers, farming, nutrient management, nutrients, organic matter, soil amendments, soil health, soil health webinar, soil health webinars, soil organic matter, soil testing, soils, webinar, webinar seriesLeslie Johnson

Improved soil health provides several benefits to crops and water quality. However, there are limitations and as a result, some misconceptions exist. This presentation features Chad Penn, Research Soil Scientist at USDA-ARS and Adjunct Professor of Agronomy at Purdue University, who addresses how improved soil health impacts soil fertility and nutrient transport, as well as dispelling common myths.This presentation was originally broadcast on April 17, 2024.

20Mar/24

Soil Health Exchange

March 20, 2024Soil Health2024, agriculture, communication, digital cafe, discussion, extension, farmers, farming, nebraska, platform, questions, soil health, soil health webinar, soil health webinars, toolbox, webinar, webinar seriesLeslie Johnson

The March Soil Health Digital Café featured Saurav Das, Research Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln where he discussed the development of the Soil Health Exchange, the current status, and the vision moving forward. This presentation was originally broadcast on March 20, 2024.

21Feb/24

Soil Microbial Biodiversity in Field Crops

February 21, 2024Soil Health2024, agriculture, crops, digital cafe, farmers, farming, science, soil health, soil health webinar, soil health webinars, soils, state of the science, webinar, webinar seriesLeslie Johnson

The February Soil Health Digital Café featured Benjamin Agyei-Kwado, graduate student in cropping systems agronomy at Michigan State University, and Eric Anderson, Michigan State Extension Field Crops Educator, who discussed their work on soil microbial biodiversity in field crops. This presentation was originally broadcast on February 21, 2024.

18Oct/23

Bioenergy crop Miscanthus x giganteus acts as an ecosystem engineer to increase bacterial diversity and soil organic matter on marginal land

October 18, 2023Soil Health2023, agriculture, crops, digital cafe, extension, farmers, farming, research, science, soil health, soil health webinar, soil health webinars, soils, state of the science, webinar, webinar seriesLeslie Johnson

In this edition of the Digital Café series, we hear from Dr. Zac Freedman, Assistant Professor of Soil Microbiology and O.N. Allen Professor of Soil Microbiology at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. This presentation was originally broadcast on Wednesday, October 18, 2023.

21Jun/23

Grazing, Cover Crops, and Soil Health

June 21, 2023Soil Health2023, agriculture, cover crops, crops, digital cafe, extension, farmers, grazing, soil, soil health webinar, webinar, webinar seriesLeslie Johnson

This Digital Cafe features Augustine Obour, Associate Professor of Soil Science at Kansas State University, who discusses Kansas State University’s research efforts using cover crops as forage to provide immediate economic benefits to farmers and quantifying the impacts of utilizing cover crops for forage on soil health and crop yields in semiarid dryland systems. This presentation was originally broadcast on Wednesday, June 21, 2023.