▶ Spring 2026 Ag Weather Outlook
Josh Bendorf explains near‑term and seasonal forecasts for temperature and precipitation, flooding risks, and soil temperature timing relevant to spring planting decisions.
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Produce Safety Considerations in Irrigation
Minimizing the risk of contamination through your irrigation systems is part of delivering a quality product. In this webinar, Kristin Krokowski shares about the importance of water quality, inspecting your irrigation system and the choices you can make on your farm to minimize risk whether or not you are subject to the FSMA produce safety rule.
Irrigation Basics for Diversified Vegetable Systems
Understand how to use soil and plant water use data to set up simple irrigation schedules for a system. In this webinar, Dr. Mallika Nocco (Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist in Agrohydrology) discusses how to use plant available water content and crop evapotranspiration to build schedules for irrigation management.
Predict Manure Runoff with the Runoff Risk Advisory Forecast
Learn how to predict manure runoff in four easy steps with the Runoff Risk Advisory Forecast.
Biomass Thresholds for Cereal Rye Cover Crop Goals
DOI Citation: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/96980 Biomass Thresholds for Cereal Rye Cover Crop Goals Biomass Thresholds for Cover Crop Goals What Affects Cereal Rye Biomass Accumulation? Termination Timing Tradeoffs Conclusion What benefits do cover crops provide? Cover crops can provide a wide range of benefits in dairy and grain production systems, but no single cover crop species or management approach […]
Managing Soil Water for Irrigated and Dryland Farming
Understanding how water moves, stores, and is available for plant uptake in the soil is one of the first steps in crop water management. In this webinar, Dr. Izze Mcnamee (Extension Water Quality Specialist) discusses how to determine plant available water, monitor soil moisture, and apply these approaches in everyday irrigation management.
▶ Watch: Focus on Forage Cover Crops
The fourth Focus on Forage webinar in the 2026 series, Focus on Managed Grazing, features research updates on forage cover crop species and varieties, cover crop forage quality, and factors affecting the success of diverse forage mixes.
▶ Watch: Focus on Managed Grazing
The third Focus on Forage webinar in the 2026 series, Focus on Managed Grazing, features research updates on pasture and confinement economics, pasture species ID and selection, and soil carbon and soil health in pastures.
Vegetable Irrigation Planning
From drip tape and wobblers to hardening-off misters and seedling flood tables, irrigation design is always a custom job. So how do you (re)design your own? Join Tom Bryan for stories of success, regrets, and automation for 1-5 acre vegetable irrigation systems. Tom discusses his most recent farm project’s irrigation design, decisions he regrets, and […]
▶ Watch: Focus on Forage Research
The second Focus on Forage webinar in the 2026 series, Focus on Forage Research, features research updates on on-farm NIR instruments, alfalfa yield and persistence, and forage quality and yield.
Hot water seed treatment for management of seed-borne diseases
Disease prevention starts before we plant our first seeds of the season. In this webinar, learn more about hot water seed treatment and how this method can be used in combination with other integrated pest management (IPM) practices to reduce and prevent outbreaks of seed-borne diseases.
▶ Watch: Focus on Forage Management
The first Focus on Forage webinar in the 2026 series, Focus on Forage Management, features research-based resources and management strategies to keep forage systems productive over time.