Not all training takes place in a classroom. We’ve put together a searchable library of recorded modules, webinars, videos and other resources to help our staff and partners find professional development information on a variety of topics.
| Title | Subject | Skill | Format | Description | Source |
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| Conservation Planning Course Webinar #1: Review of the Conservation Planning Process | Planning | Conservation Planning | Webinar |
This webinar covers Phases I and II, Steps 1 through 7 of the Conservation Planning process. Participants will learn: how identifying … |
NRCS |
| Conservation Planning Course Webinar #2: Additional Considerations in the Planning Process | Planning | Conservation Planning | Webinar |
This webinar covers Phase II, Steps 8 and 9 of the Conservation Planning Process, Cultural Social and Economic Considerations, Resource Concerns… |
NRCS |
| Conservation Tree/Shrub Groups: A Tool for Matching Woody Plants to Soils | Basic Tech Skills (Matrix) | Forestry Basics and Practices | Webinar |
This webinar provides guidance on how to develop and use Conservation Tree/Shrub Groups (CTSG) to match woody plants to soils. (Time: 00:39)… |
NRCS |
| Conserving Pollinators While Addressing Other Resource Concerns | Pollinators | Native Vegetation, Habitats and Pollinators | Webinar |
(Time: 01:30) This webinar discusses planning and implementing conservation measures to address multiple resource concerns, including… |
Xerces Society/NRCS |
| CORE 4 Pest Management Technical References and Training Materials | Basic Tech Skills (Matrix) | Pest Management | Reference Material |
(Time: will vary) Basic overview of pest management principles. Materials concentrate on assessing environmental risks of pest… |
NRCS |
| CORE 4 Pest Management Technical References and Training Materials | Basic Tech Skills (Matrix) | Ag & Agronomy | Reference Material |
Basic overview of pest management principles. Materials concentrate on assessing environmental risks of pest management alternatives. |
NRCS, June 1999 |
| Core NRCS Conservation Practices for Enhancing Soil Health | Basic Tech Skills (Matrix) | Soil Health and Management | Webinar |
(Time: 1:10) This webinar focuses on how several core NRCS conservation practices can be used by farmers to improve soil health, linking them… |
NRCS |
| Corn growth and development staging systems (Corn, part 2/3) | Crops | Ag & Agronomy | Video |
(Time 41:01) Dr. Joe Lauer's presentation about "Corn Growth, Development, and Physiology". This part (2 of 3) focuses on systems used to… |
U of WIS, Jan 2015 |
| Corn Hybrid Selection | Crops | Ag & Agronomy | Video |
What criteria should you used when selecting a corn hybrid? How do hybrid maturities affect your bottom line? What about hybrid selection and… |
UMN Extension |
| Corn Pest Management | Basic Tech Skills (Matrix) | Pest Management | Reference Material |
This website provides information on insects, diseases and nematodes affecting corn. |
U of M Extension |
| Corn yield in Wisconsin and the US (Corn, part 1/3) | Crops | Ag & Agronomy | Video |
(Time:13:41) Dr. Joe Lauer's presentation about "Corn Growth, Development, and Physiology". This part (1 of 3) focuses on an overview of corn… |
U of Wis, Jan 2015 |
| Cover Crop Economics Decision Support Tool | Practice Specific | Webinar |
As cover crops gain attention and focus, questions are moving from agronomics to economics. This presentation centers on a spreadsheet-based… |
Conservation Technology Information Center |
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| Cover Crop Profitability | Soil Health and Management | Video |
How long does it take for cover crops to become profitable? Join us for next week's Digital Café where Dr. Rob Myers of University of Missouri… |
Soil Health Nexus |
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| Cover Crop Strategies Podcasts | Practice Specific | Podcast |
Cover Crop Strategies offers a series of Podcasts related to Cover Crops and Soil Health. Topics include Cover Crop Management Tips,… |
Cover Crop Strategies |
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| Cover Crop Training Series | Practice Specific |
This training series provides an introduction to the knowledge, skills, and abilities to plan, design, and install Cover Crops (CPS340).… |
TTCP |
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| Cover Cropping for Soil Health and Fertility in Organic Systems | Practice Specific | Webinar |
Organic farmers rely on cover crops to provide soil fertility, crop nutrition, weed suppression, and mitigation of other pest problems in a… |
Conservation Webinars |
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| Cover Crops: Matching your management strategies and goals | Practice Specific | Video |
There are a number of important considerations when deciding which cover crops fit best with your operation. In this webinar, we discuss U of MN… |
UMN Extension |
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| Cover Crops: Why grow a crop you don't sell? | Practice Specific | Webinar |
Cover crops are increasingly popular, but can they be profitable in the first year? And what's the true cost of cover crop adoption? In this… |
NRCS |
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| CPS 595 Integrated Pest Management Implementation Requirements Demonstration | Practice Design | Practice Specific | Webinar |
Adam Reed, Regional Agronomist with NRCS, demonstrates the use of the Integrated Pest Management Implementation Requirements worksheet. The… |
TTCP |
| Creating and Maintaining Biodiversity in Organic Perennial Systems | Basic Tech Skills (Matrix) | Ag & Agronomy | Webinar |
Organic producers of perennial crops are required to introduce biodiversity in lieu of a crop rotation. This webinar will cover examples of… |
NRCS |
| Critical Area Planting Training Series | Practice Specific |
This training series provides an introduction to the knowledge, skills, and abilities to plan, design, and install Critical Area Planting (CPS342… |
TTCP |
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| Crop Tree Management for Forest Stand Improvement | Basic Tech Skills (Matrix) | Forestry Basics and Practices | Webinar |
This webinar provides insight into how meeting the sunlight needs of individual crop trees can facilitate Forest Stand Improvement efforts. (Time… |
NRCS |
| Cropland In-Field Soil Health Assessment Training | Soil Health and Management | Webinar |
This training is designed to provide an introduction to the Cropland In-Field Soil Health Assessment, a tool for inventorying soils and… |
NRCS |
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| CropScape | Crops | Ag & Agronomy | Reference Material |
Layer developed by USDA NASS in cooperation with NASA. Map showing crop history of areas going back to 1997. Also evaluation of how… |
USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) |
| Demonstration of WEPP in more detail | Basic Tech Skills (Matrix) | Soil Erosion Prediction Models | Video |
(Time: 1:00:27) This session includes cover crops, kill crop, mulch/manure additions, weed growth, irrigation, etc. |
NRCS |
| Disturbance, Grazing and Economics | Basic Tech Skills (Matrix) | Soil Health and Management | Webinar |
(Time: 1:48) Disturbance, Grazing and Economics (3/3) webinars are prerequisites for the Minnesota Soil Health Field Day and Minnesota Soil… |
NRCS |
| Ecological Site Descriptions: An Interdisciplinary and Interagency Effort - Webinar 1 | Basic Tech Skills (Matrix) | Native Vegetation, Habitats and Pollinators | Webinar |
This is the first session of an eight-session webinar series. Session one provides a review of the history and use, from range site… |
NRCS |
| Ecological Site Descriptions: An Interdisciplinary and Interagency Effort - Webinar 2 | Basic Tech Skills (Matrix) | Native Vegetation, Habitats and Pollinators | Webinar |
This is the second session of an eight-session webinar series. Session 2 provides a thorough review of the basic concepts of ecological… |
NRCS |
| Ecological Site Descriptions: An Interdisciplinary and Interagency Effort - Webinar 3 | Basic Tech Skills (Matrix) | Native Vegetation, Habitats and Pollinators | Webinar |
This is the third session of an eight-session webinar series. Session three focuses on presentations that demonstrate how to mine and… |
NRCS |
| Ecological Site Descriptions: An Interdisciplinary and Interagency Effort - Webinar 4 | Basic Tech Skills (Matrix) | Native Vegetation, Habitats and Pollinators | Webinar |
This is the fourth session of an eight-session webinar series. Session four focuses on presentations that demonstrate how to mine and… |
NRCS |
| Ecological Site Descriptions: An Interdisciplinary and Interagency Effort - Webinar 5 | Basic Tech Skills (Matrix) | Native Vegetation, Habitats and Pollinators | Webinar |
This is the fifth session of an eight-session webinar series. This session will focus on how ecological site descriptions are being utilized… |
NRCS |
| Ecological Site Descriptions: An Interdisciplinary and Interagency Effort - Webinar 6 | Basic Tech Skills (Matrix) | Native Vegetation, Habitats and Pollinators | Webinar |
This is the sixth session of an eight-session webinar series. This session will focus on how ecological site descriptions are being utilized… |
NRCS |
| Ecological Site Descriptions: An Interdisciplinary and Interagency Effort - Webinar 7 | Basic Tech Skills (Matrix) | Native Vegetation, Habitats and Pollinators | Webinar |
This is the seventh session of an eight-session webinar series. This session will focus on how agencies and NGOs can benefit from, and… |
NRCS |
| Ecological Site Descriptions: An Interdisciplinary and Interagency Effort - Webinar 8 | Basic Tech Skills (Matrix) | Native Vegetation, Habitats and Pollinators | Webinar |
This is the final session of an eight-session webinar series. This session will focus on how agencies and NGOs can benefit from, and… |
NRCS |
| Ecological Weed Management at the Johnson Farms | Pest Management | Video |
Charlie Johnson shares how he and his family control weeds on 1,600 acres of organic corn and soybeans in Madison S.D using ecological strategies… |
USDA SARE |
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| Economic and decision barriers to soil health practice adoption: A role for public policy? | Basic Tech Skills (Matrix) | Soil Health and Management | Webinar |
Farmers have long had the goal of managing land for use by future generations. Accordingly, the U.S. Department of Agriculture aims to increase… |
USDA Economists and CFARE |
| Economic Awareness and Risk (Phase I, Webinar #3) | Conservation Planning | Webinar |
This 3-phase, webinar-based training series is designed to teach basic principles of conservation economics to enable participants to integrate… |
NRCS |
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| Economics and Environmental Issues | Nutrient Management | Ag & Agronomy | Webinar |
(Time: 00:24:31) Information is presented on nitrogen management considerations for high profitability and low environmental risks;… |
NRCS, June 2014 |
| Economics of Soil Health Systems in Minnesota | Advanced Tech Skills (Matrix) | Soil Health and Management | Webinar |
The Soil Health Institute and Cargill conducted this project to provide farmers with the economics information they need when deciding whether to… |
Soil Health Institute, Cargill |
| Edge-of-Field Water Quality and How It Can Help Us In A Changing Climate | Core Competency (Matrix) | Water Quality Basics | Video |
Discovery Farms Programs in Wisconsin and Minnesota are excited to bring to you a virtual conference series this winter. Join us as we cover… |
Minnesota Agricultural Water Resource Center |
| Effective Cover Cropping - Maximizing Benefits, Minimizing Risk | Soil Health and Management | Webinar |
Bringing forward information and data from several years and data from assorted research locations, Dr. Gruver discusses both gains and hurdles in… |
USDA NRCS Science and Technology |
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| EFH2 Software | Basic Tech Skills (Matrix) | Hydrology | Reference Material |
Website to download NRCS Technical Tools. The EFH-2 software implements the procedures described in the NEH 650 - Engineering… |
NRCS |
| EFT Preferences | Practice Design | Practice Specific | Video |
This video shows how to import preferences, and the "why" behind most of the preferences (i.e. default values) used in EFT in MN. It also… |
TTCP |
| EFT Reference Materials | Basic Tech Skills (Matrix) | Practice Specific | Reference Material |
These documents support EFT Terrace and Waterway design tools (TDT and WDT). They include workflows to prepare data for import into EFT and… |
TTCP |
| Emulating Forest Disturbance with Silviculture | Advanced Tech Skills (Matrix) | Forest Ecology and Management | Webinar |
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has developed a Forest Ecology and Management course focused on advancing knowledge and skills for USFWS… |
USFWS |
| Engineering Boot Camp: Animal Waste Practices | Practice Specific | Webinar |
Mike Krcmarik, NRCS Ag Engineer, provides an overview of several ag waste related practices and example scenarios to help decide in practice… |
NRCS |
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| Engineering Field Tools (EFT): Overview and Basic Tasks | Practice Design | Practice Specific | Video |
Time: 59:00; At the conclusion of this webinar, participants will know the general capabilities of the Engineering Field Tools software, with… |
NRCS |
| Enhancing Mast (food) Production for Woodland Wildlife | Basic Tech Skills (Matrix) | Forestry Basics and Practices | Webinar |
Fruit from trees and shrubs (aka mast) is a significant source of food for many wildlife species. This webinar will explore a variety of mast… |
New York Logger Training |
| Environmental Evaluation Series No. 1: Primer on NRCS Environmental Compliance | Planning | Conservation Planning | Webinar |
First in the series on environmental evaluations, the primary topics of this webinar include: legal foundations, scoping of relevant resource… |
NRCS |
| Environmental Evaluation Series No. 2: Documenting the Environmental Evaluation on the NRCS CPA-52 Environmental Evaluation Worksheet | Planning | Conservation Planning | Webinar |
Second in the series on environmental evaluations, this webinar will assist NRCS conservation planners, partners, and technical service providers… |
NRCS |