(Time:12:29)  Peter Mead (Cartographic Technician) and Wes Drake (Agricultural Engineer) from the Minnesota NRCS provide an overview and demonstration of LiDAR tools for the planning and design of water and sediment control basins (NRCS Practice 638) in ArcGIS.

(Time: 24:30)  This is an introductory presentation on the U.S. Global Positioning System.  It is not training on specific equipment but an overview of the GPS system and how it works.  The target audience are people who may be using GPS survey equipment but are unfamiliar with how the GPS system works.  If you don’t know how GPS works, you will not understand why it’s not working.  This presentation is intended for viewing before getting more advanced hands on training on specific GPS equipment.

This video is a demonstration of each step of a watershed delineation and RCN determination for a project site.  The demonstration shows the steps in ArcMap 10.5.1 using the NRCS Engineering Tools toolbox.

(Time: 3:32) This video is a quick demonstration of where to find, download, and how to install
the NRCS-Engineering Tools toolbox into ArcMap. The Tools version shown is 1.1.14

Layer developed by USDA NASS in cooperation with NASA.  Map showing crop condition monitoring system. Integrates soil moisture, temperature, etc.

Layer developed by USDA NASS in cooperation with NASA.  Map showing crop history of areas going back to 1997.  Also evaluation of how many years an area has been in specific crops.  Useful for remotely determining crop and rotations.  Area of interest can be defined or uploaded as an ESRI shapefile.  Data can be exported as .tif and KML files

County specific data (examples include acres and sales by crop type, number and sales by livestock type and types of operators and operations) can be found by selecting “Find data by: state and county”  or querying “Data Search Tools: Quick Stats”  This data is useful to help determine the types of agricultural operations that exist within a county or other geographic work area.

Nine modules:  Module 1:  Beef Cattle Genetic Management; Time: 20 - 25 minutes; Module 2: Beef Cattle Nutrition and Feeding; Time: 30 – 45 minutes; Module 3: Reproduction in Beef Cattle; Time: 30 – 45 minutes; Module 4: Beef Cattle Health Management; Time: 45 – 60 minutes; Module 5: Facilities, Handling & Environmental Considerations; Time: 30 – 45 minutes; Module 6: Market Classes, Grades and Types of Cattle and Beef; Time: 20 – 30 minutes; Module 7: USDA Agricultural Marketing Service Feeder Cattle Standards; Time: 20 – 30 minutes;  Module 8: Public Issues Affecting Be

This document provides guidance on how to determine a body condition score (BCS) for beef cows.  Body condition scores are excellent indicators of the nutritional status in beef cows.  There is a strong link between the body condition of a cow and her reproductive performance- an important factor in the economics of a cow-calf operation.