University of Minnesota Extension and the Minnesota Agricultural Water Resource Center’s Nitrogen: Minnesota's Grand Challenge and Compelling Opportunity Conference brings experts together to focus entirely on this valuable input. Current topics in crop production and environmental stewardship will be relevant and informative for today's agricultural producers and professionals and anyone else who appreciates high-quality, research based information.

The University of Minnesota Extension and the Minnesota Agricultural Water Resource Center’s Nutrient Management Conference brings together experts to focus on current topics in crop production and environmental stewardship.

The topics presented are relevant and informative for agricultural producers and professionals, as well as anyone who appreciates high quality, research based information.

Tech Talks is a online training series organized by the Technical Training and Certification Program. Rotating speakers cover a wide variety of technical topics at 1:00 on Mondays. The list of Tech Talks and links to replays for 2025 can be found below.

This training is the foundation for identifying soils based on texture and understanding physical soil properties as they pertain to conservation engineering design and construction. This is an in-person course for performing field tests to classify soils using the Unified Soil Classification System. Participants are shown how to perform the field tests and classify various types of soil. Participants are provided soil samples to test, classify, and explain results. Soil logging is also introduced.

Curious about the best ways to support Minnesota’s native bees and strengthen pollinator habitat where you live? Interested in the newest research on bee health, habitat needs, and conservation strategies? This year’s three part webinar series from University of Minnesota Extension brings together expert educators, researchers, and Master Gardeners to highlight keystone plants and “Soft Landings” designs, share the latest findings from the UMN Bee Lab, and showcase successful pollinator projects from across the state.

TTCP is providing a basic ArcGIS Pro training. There will be hands on examples for navigating GIS Pro, creating/editing feature classes, and creating maps.

Come help us celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Midwest Cover Crops Council! Our MCCC Annual Meeting will take place on Tuesday, February 10th in Dubuque, IA, and will be followed by a day of cover crop education on February 11th. Stay tuned for more details on registration, speakers, and details on our anniversary celebration!

Regional, On the Job Training  for cover crop, residue and tillage management, and conservation crop rotation. Attendees will meet, virtually or in person, with the same group over the course of up to a year. Groups will be led by the local Area Resource Conservationist(s), TTCP Training Conservationists, Specialists or other partner subject matter experts. The focus of these meetings is the planning, design, and installation/certification of practices. The core practices that will be the focus of the OJT in this cohort will include the practices below based on IDP requests:

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.