Participate in this webinar to learn about the overarching economic findings across six crop farmers and two almond growers related to changes in costs, revenues, yield, and return on investment. Hear individual stories about how nutrient and pesticide applications changed in response to soil health practice use.
Participants will learn agricultural production factors along combination with economic considerations for evaluating profitability of adopting Soil Health Management Systems.
This 3-phase, webinar-based training series is designed to teach basic principles of conservation economics to enable participants to integrate economics into the NRCS Conservation Planning Process. Participants will become more knowledgeable about the role economics plays and will be able to recognize and perform basic economic analysis during conservation planning.
This 3-phase, webinar-based training series is designed to teach basic principles of conservation economics to enable participants to integrate economics into the NRCS Conservation Planning Process. Participants will become more knowledgeable about the role economics plays and will be able to recognize and perform basic economic analysis during conservation planning.
This 3-phase, webinar-based training series is designed to teach basic principles of conservation economics to enable participants to integrate economics into the NRCS Conservation Planning Process. Participants will become more knowledgeable about the role economics plays and will be able to recognize and perform basic economic analysis during conservation planning.
This 3-phase, webinar-based training series is designed to teach basic principles of conservation economics to enable participants to integrate economics into the NRCS Conservation Planning Process. Participants will become more knowledgeable about the role economics plays and will be able to recognize and perform basic economic analysis during conservation planning.
Shannon Carpenter, NRCS State Water Quality Specialist, reviews the Riparian Herbaceous Cover (CPS 390) and Riparian Forest Buffer (CPS 391). This session covers the differences in resource concerns, intended purposes, and determining which practice is more appropriate for the site.
Shannon Carpenter, NRCS, and Julie Grossman, UMN provide an overview of the High Tunnel practice standard (CPS 325), review different types of high tunnels, and discuss the planning considerations with a focus on high tunnel resource concerns and supporting conservation practices.
Ian Olson and Ken Fransky of Centrol Crop Consulting present on precision agricultural technology and economics.
Patrick Schultz, TTCP Engineer, walks through the steps for investigating a residential well system for the purposes of gathering data for livestock watering design. How to conduct a flow meter test as well as other tests for determining flow rate and pressure information are discussed as well as common well system components.