Tag Archives: soil

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.

19Jul/23

State of the Soils: A soil health assessment across Washington’s diverse soils and systems

July 19, 2023Soil Health2023, agriculture, digital cafe, extension, research, science, soil, soil health, soil health webinar, soils, state of the science, webinar, webinar seriesLeslie Johnson

This edition of the Soil Health Nexus Digital Café series featured Dr. Deirdre Griffin LaHue, Assistant Professor of Soil Health and Sustainable Soil Management at Washington State University. Dr. LaHue discusses the Washington State of the Soils Assessment Project and the Washington Soil Health Initiative, preliminary findings, challenges, and next steps. This presentation was originally broadcast on Wednesday, July 19, 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.

28Apr/23

New Whitepaper Explores the Connection between Soil Health and Water Quality

April 28, 2023Soil Health2023, farming, science, soil, soil health, soils, state of the science, toolbox, water, water qualityLeslie Johnson

The Soil Health Nexus is excited to debut two new resources on the Soil Health Toolbox! Two Soil Health Nexus members, Francisco Arriaga, Associate Professor and Extension Specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Anna Cates, Assistant Professor and State Soil Health Specialist at the University of Minnesota, recently published a long-awaited whitepaper exploring the connection between soil health and water quality.

15Mar/23

Lessons learned from on-farm cover crop research in Nebraska

March 15, 2023Soil Health2023, agriculture, cover crops, digital cafe, extension, farmers, farming, nebraska, on-farm research, research, science, soil, soil health webinar, soil health webinars, soils, state of the science, webinar, webinar seriesLeslie Johnson

In this Digital Cafe, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Assistant Professor Andrea Basche and PhD graduate student Fernanda Krupek share results from five-year on-farm experiments conducted through a partnership program with Nebraska NRCS and the Nebraska On-Farm Research Network. This includes findings on how cover crops impact soil properties, nutrient cycling, weed communities and best practices for sampling at the farm scale. This presentation was originally broadcast on Wednesday, March 15, 2023.

15Feb/23

Baseline Assessment of the Soil Health in Ohio

February 15, 2023Soil Health2023, baseline, baseline testing, digital cafe, research, science, soil, soil health, soil health testing, soil health webinar, soil health webinars, soil tilth, soils, state of the science, webinar, webinar seriesLeslie Johnson

A key part of soil health assessments is understanding how soil health indicators vary by soil type. This Digital Café features Christine Sprunger, Assistant Professor of Soil Health at Michigan State University, who outlines a baseline soil health assessment that was conducted in Ohio. The talk also outlines goals for conducting future baseline assessments across the state of Michigan. This presentation was originally broadcast on Wednesday, February 15, 2023.