Noble Profitability Essentials teaches you how to evaluate your financial decisions and investments for maximum profitability by: Planning strategically for a positive net farm income, Creating comprehensive profit and loss and cash flow budgets to improve overall profitability, and Learning to use ratios to benchmark your ranch and identifying deadwood to improve profitability of your…

If you're a homesteader, gardener, or small-scale grower, this is a rare opportunity to learn directly in the field about how soil really works and how to build healthier, more resilient systems.

Life in the soil is essential to the health of your crop and livestock. Dive deep with us as we look into the biology, discuss it's role in soil and plant health, look under the microscope at several types of compost and have a hands on experience with Hiwassee Products as we make an extraction.

Learn what your land needs to grow the quality forage needed for today's grazing herds to be healthy, productive and profitable. Lessons covered include: Getting grounded in regenerative agriculture, Healthier Soil = A Better Bottom Line, Understanding your soil health, Tracking soil health, Gaining stakeholder buy-in, Building a personalized action plan

Join producers, agencies, and academics for three days of collaboration focused on the future of grasslands across the Southern Plains. With three themed tracks: Working Lands- Ranching, Wildlife- BioDiversity, and Conservation- Resources Management.

Business of Grazing teaches you how to manage your grazing lands by: Calculating gross margins and identifying profitable ventures to scale while phasing out underperforming areas, Understanding cost-benefit analysis of key investments like water and fencing through real-life case studies, and Creating detailed grazing plans to guide daily operations, support business goals and seize opportunities.…

The 2026 field day will focus on adding summer annual forages and small grains into the rotation. Paul Jasa, UNL Cropping and Systems Engineer (ret.) will discuss the benefits of annual forage and small grains, including reduced expenses and multi-year increase in water and nutrient efficiency. Diverse farm/ranch operation benefits include drought mitigation, increased grass…

The 2026 West River Soil Health School will be held June 24-25 at Shawn and Kristi Freeland’s Dry Creek Farm and Ranch near Caputa, SD. The agenda will feature classroom style presentations from producers and technical experts from across the state and region, as well as hands-on experiences in the field. Area producers will also share their challenges and successes…

Field Day Agenda includes: Introduction to Humic and Fulvic Acids, Is it Regenerative Farming Without Livestock, How to Test New Farming Methods on Your Own Operation, Explore Available Cost Share Programs & Technical Assistance

The vision for this event, held near the crossroads of our nation, is to bring agricultural producers together to support and teach one another at the intersection of multiple production cultures. "Crossroads" features multiple tracks delivering practical information on soil health approaches for Oklahoma and Southern Plains croppers, ranchers, and urban/small farm food producers, regardless…

Meet us in St. Louis! Save the date for the 81st SWCS International Annual Conference, taking place on July 26-29, 2026 in St. Louis, Missouri. This year’s theme, Gateway to Conservation, embraces St. Louis’s historic and geographic significance. Located just south of the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, the two largest moving bodies of…

Greg Judy of Green Pastures Farm in Missouri and Josh Teague of Running T Farms in North Carolina will discuss stockpiling forage for winter, economical fence and water design, multi-species grazing, developing wildlife habitat, low-input genetics, grass-finishing of beef, fescue management and more.

Keynote speaker: Gail Fuller, Regenerative Grazing Management Topics include: Virtual Fence Technologies, Carbon Credit Markets, Grazing on Croplands, and more!

Learn what your land needs to grow the quality forage needed for today's grazing herds to be healthy, productive and profitable. Lessons covered include: Getting grounded in regenerative agriculture, Healthier Soil = A Better Bottom Line, Understanding your soil health, Tracking soil health, Gaining stakeholder buy-in, Building a personalized action plan. Lincoln University is pleased…

Join us for an on-farm look at virtual fence technology and regenerative grazing in practice. Kaitlyn Dozler-German, CRA Virtual Fence Program Manager, will open with a brief overview of what virtual fence is and how Chris Hudson has implemented it on his operation. Chris will then lead a tour of the farm, where folks can…