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OpenET: Evapotranspiration Data Explorer
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OpenET uses best available science to provide easily accessible satellite-based estimates of evapotranspiration (ET) for improved water management across the western United States. Using the Data Explorer, users can explore ET data at the field scale for millions of individual fields or at the original quarter-acre resolution of the satellite data.
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Living Soil Film
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Our soils support 95 percent of all food production, and by 2060, our soils will be asked to give us as much food as we have consumed in the last 500 years.
60-minute documentary featuring innovative farmers and soil health experts from across the nation. The societal and environmental costs of soil loss and degradation in the U.S. are now estimated to be as high as $85 billion every single year. It’s time we changed everything we thought we knew about soil.
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Graves Farm Wildlife Habitat Restoration Story
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A short storymap that follows how one farm in Delaware was able to sustain active farmland and create new habitat for waterfowl like the American Black Duck and wildlife. Features interviews with farm managers and their experiences in the Working Lands for Wildlife program.
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Certified Biomass Procurement Specialist - Switchgrass
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This eight-hour online course is designed to prepare agriculturists to work with farmers as employees of a bio-refinery to provide its feedstock needs. Course topics include site selection, soils, drainage, fertility, varieties, weed control, selecting growers, contracts, production systems and other switchgrass production issues. Course instructors are specialists from Auburn University, University of Tennessee, University of Kentucky and Genera Energy. For more information or to enroll contact Mark Hall (hallmah@auburn.edu).
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No-Till Intensive Trainings
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8-part webinar series with farmers, researchers, or other expert practitioners. The classes will discuss common obstacles to implementing a successful no-till program, address these issues through field proven technical knowledge, and follow a training plan that will best enable the TSP (technical service provider) to support the farmers in the no-till practice transition. This course is open to any service provider working with farmers in the Northeast! Upon course completion participants will receive a No-Till Intensive Training Certificate of Completion, as well as be eligible for 8 CCA credits and 1 Pesticide credit.
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Soil for Water
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Soil for Water supports farmers, ranchers, and land managers across the United States who are taking steps to catch and hold more water in the soil. Started in 2015, after the megadroughts in Texas, Soil for Water is a free and voluntary program of the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT).
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Native Grass College: Video series
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The Native Grass College offers short videos and resources for practitioner and landowners to learn how to 1) Establish Native Grasses, 2) Control Grass Competition, and 3) Manage grazing. Native grasses are better for grazing and for wildlife. Developed by Dr. Pat Keyser, Center for Native Grasslands Management at the University of Tennessee.
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More Quail Per Bale: Precision Conservation for a More Sustainable Future
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How farming and quail management can be compatible on working lands.
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Regenerative Agriculture: No-Till Farming
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Gabe Brown, legendary Rancher from Bismarck, North Dakota, discusses how Regenerative Agriculture is a solution to local and global challenges.
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Planting Native Grasses: Missouri Forage and Livestock Series
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Pat Keyser (University of Tennessee) and Rick Rath (Missouri Department of Conservation) share about establishing and managing native grasses on pasture lands. Native grasses benefit not only livestock, but wildlife too. This webinar can help practitioners and landowners alike.
Filmed January 20, 2021 - Missouri Forage and Livestock Series
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