Poultry with Purpose: The Humane Benefits of Slower Growing Breeds
September 9, 2025
As consumer demand for ethically produced food continues to rise, the poultry industry is at a crossroads. This webinar, explores how transitioning to slower-growing chicken breeds can improve animal welfare, align with consumer values, support more sustainable farming practices, plus they're just plain fun to raise.
Photo credit: WillowBrook Farms
Humane Handling for sheep and Goats: Why it shouldn't involve pallets, pokers or pushing
September 16, 2025
Whether you’re considering becoming a sheep or goat farmer, have recently started, or have been raising them for many years, you’ll need to have a method for handling them. Sheep need to be sheared, both sheep and goats need health checks, hoof trims, deworming, ear tagging, weighing, trailer loading, and other herd interactions.
Photo Credit: BOLT Farm
Building Soil, Wealth, and Legacies: Infinite Banking for Regenerative Farm Succession
September 30, 2025
Discover how regenerative farmers are using Infinite Banking to finance operations, grow long-term wealth, and ensure a smooth transition to the next generation — without relying on banks or losing the farm.
Silvopasture for Pigs
October 7, 2025
Everyone knows that pigs appreciate trees for shade. But the right trees can offer very significant amounts of feed, allowing producers to significantly slash their feed costs during the growing season. Join to learn which trees make the most sense for producers, how to plant and protect them, and how to get started with silvopasture on your own farm.
Getting your Farm Funded: Understanding FACT’s Fund-a-Farmer Grants in 2025
October 28, 2025
Join FACT grant administrators as they explain the Fund-a-Farmer grant process and Humane Farming funding opportunities.
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Subscriptions that work: How to generate Recurring Revenue on your Farm
December 2, 2025
Learn how to set up subscription box orders to generate monthly recurring revenue for your farm using easy-to-use software to set up your online store.
Taking your animals across the finish line
December 9, 2025
After putting weeks, months, or years into producing a healthy and happy animal it's extremely important to make sure it is ready to process and properly handled to ensure the best customer experience and farm profitability.
So, You Want to be a Farmer
January 6, 2026
Before retiring or submitting your letter of resignation, join this webinar to explore some items to consider when starting a farm. Topics covered will include business structure, business planning, farm insurance, registering your farm, financing your farm and applying for USDA programs and services.
Intro to Farm Animal Welfare Certifications in 2026
February 10, 2026
Join us to learn the basics of farm animal welfare certification programs - what they are, the differences between existing programs, the value of certification, how to become certified, and funding opportunities to help you achieve certification.
Are YOU Ready to Host a Farmstay?
March 10, 2026
Join us for an inspiring and informative session as Elizabeth shares her experience of hosting a farmstay on her partner's 5th-generation family farm since 2020. From the first seeds of the idea to building a unique guest experience rooted in heritage and hospitality, this webinar offers an authentic behind-the-scenes look at agritourism done right.
Raising Dairy Sheep for Exceptional Milk
February 18, 2025 1pm ET
Sheep milk has a lot going for it: it's creamier and higher in protein than cow and goat milk, tends to be more digestible for people who can't tolerate other milks, and is the basis for many of the world's greatest cheeses.
Solar Grazing in the Southeast: Opportunities and Challenges
February 24, 2025 3pmET
The rapid growth of utility-scale solar farms, especially in the Southeast, is altering the agricultural landscape in many states. Concurrent with this growth has been the increasing interest and demand for utilizing sheep to manage the vegetation on these farms.
Pasture Poultry and Bird Flu: How to avoid it and what to expect if you get it
March 13, 2025 1pmET
Bird flu is a threat for everyone who raises poultry. While previous outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) had a much greater impact on large poultry producers, the current outbreak is hitting just as many small flocks as large ones. This webinar will provide information on steps pasture-based poultry producers can take to avoid becoming infected.
Selling Lesser Know Cuts: Tips and Techniques from Belmont Butchery
March 24, 2025 @1pmET
Diving deeper into the finer details of brooding to perfect the environment when chicks/poults/ducklings are first placed and how to transition them to prepare them for the pasture. For those who mostly know what they are doing when it comes to brooding. Discussing brooder design, ventilation, drafts, bedding, feed, brooding with brooder guard or whole house brooding, supplemental feeders and waters and feeder and waterer types. Basic health issues and behaviors to watch out for such as delivery stress, grouping/piling, panting, early starve-outs (3-5 days of age), late starve outs (10+ days of age) and how to correct or prevent it with management or supplements. Stressing the importance of sitting on the ground to watch how they are behaving to see where you can make tweaks that make a difference in livability and weight gain.
Advanced Brooding: Honing in on your skills
March 20, 2025 @2pmET
Diving deeper into the finer details of brooding to perfect the environment when chicks/poults/ducklings are first placed and how to transition them to prepare them for the pasture. For those who mostly know what they are doing when it comes to brooding. Discussing brooder design, ventilation, drafts, bedding, feed, brooding with brooder guard or whole house brooding, supplemental feeders and waters and feeder and waterer types. Basic health issues and behaviors to watch out for such as delivery stress, grouping/piling, panting, early starve-outs (3-5 days of age), late starve outs (10+ days of age) and how to correct or prevent it with management or supplements. Stressing the importance of sitting on the ground to watch how they are behaving to see where you can make tweaks that make a difference in livability and weight gain.
First Aid Fundamentals for Livestock: Caring for Goats, Sheep and Cows
February 4, 2025 @3pmET
Farm life is unpredictable, and emergencies with your livestock can happen at any time. Join us for this essential webinar on "First Aid Fundamentals for Livestock: Caring for Goats, Sheep and Cows", where we'll provide practical, hands-on knowledge to help you care for goats, sheep, and cows in critical situations.
Treating Farming as a Business, not a Hobby
April 1, 2025 3pmET
Join us as we dig into what makes small scale farming viable and profitable, and how you can approach your farm venture strategically to make it work for you.
Commercial Targeted Grazing with Goats 101
January 28, 2025 @3pmET
Want to get more revenue from the goats you produce and deliver a valuable service to the world at the same time? A targeted goat grazing business could be just the ticket...but be sure to go into it with your eyes wide open. Commercial targeted grazing requires an additional knowledge base and skill set, and it comes with its own unique challenges and risks. But, when approached with a professional mindset it can be the perfect profitable complement to a goat farm. Join Aaron Steele, founder of Goats On The Go®, to learn the basics of the business, including an honest discussion of all of its potential pleasures and pitfalls.
The Wild Side of Farming: Managing Habitats for Farm-Friendly Wildlife
January 13, 2025 @3pm
Explore practical strategies and incentives for enhancing biodiversity while maintaining productive agricultural lands. This session is perfect for farmers and land managers looking to balance conservation with agriculture and improve ecosystem health while supporting local wildlife.
Farmer’s First Aid: AED’s and Bleeding Control
October 28, 2024 @1pmET
Farmers are at higher risk of injury and are often in rural settings making ambulance response times much longer.The longer we wait to act on life saving interventions, the greater the loss. Learn basic do’s and don'ts about heart attacks and controlling bleeding, identify helpful resources and additional training available to the public with Paramedic Aaron Kersey. I