Search

TTCP Training Engineer Aaron Peter will use the Engineering Field Tools software to demonstrate how to incorporate and calculate out-of-bank flows in your EFT waterway design where allowed.  The process follows Engineering Field Handbook Chapter 7, MN Supplement 7-13.  Familiarity with standard waterway designs in EFT is recommended.

Managing Cover Crops Profitably, Third Edition, was published in 2007 by the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program under cooperative agreements with the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, USDA, the University of Maryland and the University of Vermont. 

Managing Cover Crops Profitably

Cover crops offer many benefits for agriculture that include erosion control; reduced compaction and nutrient leaching; increased water infiltration; improved soil biodiversity; weed control and disease suppression; increased carbon sequestration and maximum nutrient recycling; improved air, soil, and water quality; and wildlife enhancement. Every cover crop species has its own niche and attributes for agricultural production. A wrong combination of cover crops may exert negative attributes, so a thorough understanding of cover crops selection and management is needed to minimize negative outcomes.

Sustainable Crop Rotations with Cover Crops

Video presentations from the 7th Annual Nitrogen: Minnesota's Grand Challenge & Compelling Opportunity Conference February 9th, 2021

• ESN Use in Poorly Drained Soils

• Alternative Management Tool for Groundwater Protection

• Nitrogen Fertilization in Southeast MN

• Bioreactors, Wetlands and Other Nitrogen Mitigation Practices

• Cover Crops to Mitigate Nitrogen Losses to the Environment

• Nitrogen Management and Crop Yields Relative to Tillage and Tiling

• Proximal and Remote Sensing-based Precision Nitrogen Management

• Nitrogen Management in Irrigated Sands with Cover Crops

• Integrated Irrigation and Nitrogen Management for Crop Production

• Nitrogen Credits Following Sweet Corn and Cover Crop Influences

• Atmospheric N Deposition

• Ammonium Fixation in Soils and Nitrogen Rates

• Impacts of Nitrogen Fertilizers on Nitrogen Mineralization

• Corn Nitrogen Use from Soil vs Fertilizer in Minnesota

This course introduces you to the Windows Pesticide Screening Tool (WIN-PST). You will learn what the tool is and how to run it. You will also learn how to interpret reports it generates and how they can be used when working with clients. You’ll also see how using this tool fits in the Nine Steps of Conservation Planning.

This course introduces you to NRCS planning criteria and their role in each phase of the Nine Steps of Conservation Planning. You will learn about their relation to field and automated assessment tools and about how they are used in identifying resource concerns and evaluating conservation alternatives for clients.

Course Objectives:

Understand that the overarching purpose of planning criteria is to help planners identify and address resource concerns.
Access planning criteria in the Field Office Technical Guide (FOTG), Section III.

Use planning criteria in the conservation planning process to drive the resource inventory process (Phase I), to formulate and evaluate alternatives (Phase II), and to evaluate the effectiveness of implemented plans (Phase III).

Explain when and how experienced and new conservation planners should incorporate automated and field assessment tools into the conservation planning process.

Determine when it is appropriate to ask for support from a technical specialist or other expert during each of the three phases of conservation planning.

Apply effective communication strategies to communicate to clients about resource concerns and alternatives during each of the three phases of conservation planning.

The goal of this course is to introduce you to several common soil properties and interpretations, the basics of map unit composition, and Web Soil Survey, the official source of soils data. This course will also give you the opportunity to practice applying your soils knowledge within the context of the conservation planning process.