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On Tuesday, January 17, Join Paul Hawken and 12 organic farmers and leaders who will give Ted-style talks about their personal experiences with a dysfunctional food system and the "rebirth of the organic movement." This special pre-conference event is part of the EcoFarm Conference but available...

Please join us Monday, December 5 -- World Soil Day -- to learn about how USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) works with land managers to help them improve their soil and other natural resources via the process of conservation planning. The webinar will be from 5:30 to 7 p.m...

Hello Western Colorado Soil Health Friends! Below you will find date, time, and location information on a Soil Health Field Day in Mack, CO this weekend on Saturday, November 12. To RSVP for the Field Day to RSVP, call Philip at (970) 623-1316 or email philipfrnk@gmail.com RSVP’s are requested...

Do you live in the Great Plains or the Southwest? Do you want to help us improve #drought management tools like Grass-Cast? Tell us how your #rangeland performed this year and how #forage production compared to normal. Find the end-of-season survey at https://grasscast.unl.edu.

NOAA's National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) and the University of Colorado-Boulder's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at (CIRES) are seeking a Regional Drought Information Systems Coordinator to serve as a Southern Plains regional source of...

I'm curious if any of you irrigators out there have tried OpenET, the new (since 2021) satellite-based source of free ET information for the Western US? Useful? Limitations? Problems?

New study finds that "global agricultural water scarcity will worsen in up to 84% of croplands, with a loss of water supplies driving scarcity in about 60% of those croplands." https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/05/220505143802.htm

Maybe not, according to this article from the Prairie Ecologist. "In fact, they may not use them to draw moisture at all." My mind is blown by this article, which is now a couple years old (but I just came across it). Does anyone know more about this? And if those deep roots aren't drawing...

Ground Up Consulting is hiring an independent contractor to help implement the Colorado Soil Health Program and work on other projects related to working lands and soil health. Application is due February 18th.

The New Mexico Department of Agriculture will open its next application period for Healthy Soil Program grants in March 2022. In order to help Eligible Entities and Individual Applicants prepare to apply for a grant to improve their soil health, NMDA will host two webinars in January 2022...

USDA has just come out with a very concise Producer's Guide to Drought. There's some useful info here on financial assistance, reporting losses, and improving drought resilience.