GracierLand RC&D is teaming up with Grassworks to enhance staff knowledge on effective ways to promote grazing to farmers and to develop county grazing programs. They have assembled a statewide project education team including RC&D grazing coordinators, private industry financial analysists, and representatives from NRCS, UW Extension, and county land conservation departments and will be hosting workshops in eastern Wisconsin. To register, c ontact Kirsten at  kjurcek1@centurytel.net

UW Discovery Farms is hosting a workshop series  that will guide farmers through the process of implementing an NUE study on their fields, analyzing individual NUE values compared to WI-specific benchmarks and determining future steps to improve efficiency. The workshop series is free  and will include two in-person meetings. Find out more at  http://www.uwdiscoveryfarms.org/news-and-events/events/nitrogen-use-efficiency-workshop

Reducing aerial emissions and improving air quality is a common goal in the livestock and poultry industries. This webinar will present three approaches to reducing aerial emissions from barn exhaust air, using combinations of wet scrubbing, electrostatic precipitation, filtration, and enhanced dispersion. The efficacy of an odor removal system using electrostatic particle ionization and a geotextile fence was evaluated at a commercial swine production building in Iowa with the system showing removal of both odor and particulate. While wet-scrubbers have been used for years for emission control, these systems are typically expensive. A low-cost version, using a trickling water curtain as the wet scrubber was developed to provide a lower cost option. The webinar will describe the approaches and highlight research conducted at production-scale barns. Learn more at  https://learn.extension.org/events/3631