This hands on, in field program emphasizing crop and pest management diagnostic skill building will help you enhance your troubleshooting and crop management skills. This course features:

Join Jeff Duchene and Jared Holm for a webinar on Brush Management, Conservation Practice Standard 314, exploring how this conservation practice addresses resource concerns related to soil, water, plants, and animals. Learn how unmanaged brush can deplete soil organic matter, degrade soil organism habitats, reduce water quality, and increase wildfire risks. We'll cover strategies for controlling invasive species, promoting native plant communities, and balancing forage availability with wildlife habitat needs.

Learn how to plan a successful conservation focused event that leaves your audience impacted and ready for action during this virtual event. Free tools and templates will be provided.

Do you have questions regarding grazing management and other conservation practices that facilitate grazing management? Now is your chance to ask your questions! Jeff Duchene, State Grazing Specialist, along with other grazing specialists in Minnesota will lead a virtual office hour to answer any questions you have about grazing management techniques, planning grazing management, planning and technical specifications of conservation practices used to facilitate grazing management or any other questions you may have related to grazing.

The TTCP is offering a combined soil mechanics refresher AND grassed waterway inventory & evaluation (I&E) training. We'll use an erosion site to discuss I&E steps for common structural practices and discuss soil mechanics as a refresher to the SM-1 course.

What goes into creating a fertilizer recommendation? Dr. Daniel Kaiser discusses the approach the University of Minnesota takes in creating fertilizer recommendations along with covering similarities and differences with surrounding states. This session covers how recommendations are made for each crop, why they are different in different regions, why soil testing is important, and how the research is conducted. There is also information on up and coming changes to recommendations.

April 2025 webinar training for CREP wetland restoration practices and application workbook  

The Irrigation RCPP Team is offering a technical training workshop for irrigation practices. This training consists of two days mixed with classroom presentations, hands-on exercises, and in field demonstrations all at the Central Lakes College facility.

Local SWCDs and UMN Extension are hosting a series of field events focusing on planter setup, a planting demo, and tips for planting into standing rye.

Join us this spring to get your questions answered on planting into cover crops and high residue. Each event will feature local farmers who will demonstrate planting into a standing cover crop/high residue live, discuss equipment modifications and cover crop plan, and evaluate the planting conditions on that day. Each event is informal and will last 1-2 hours.