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.
Purple Martins: Conservation, Community, and 40 Pounds of Insects a Year
January 27, 2026
This presentation will explore the biology and history of the Purple Martin, their remarkable aerial insect-eating habits, the conservation challenges impacting the species, recommendations on martin housing, and effective techniques for colony attraction and management.
Presenter: Courtney Rousseau, President, NC Purple Martin Society and a Purple Martin Conservation Association affiliate
Subscriptions for every stage of business: How recurring revenue can boost your farm's profitability
February 17, 2026
Anna and Shae Pesek co-own and operate Over the Moon Farm in rural eastern Iowa, where they raise farrow-to-finish Berkshire hogs and pastured poultry. They’ve been running a meat subscription since 2021, experimenting with different formats as their business has evolved. In this webinar, they’ll share how various subscription models have worked for them, from a traditional seasonal CSA-style approach to a fully automated, customer-driven subscription service, and how recurring revenue can support a farm at every stage.
Presenter: Anna Pesek, Over the Moon Farm and Flowers
Marketing Threats & Opportunities in 2026: What Humane Livestock Producers Need to Know
March 3, 2026
With AI, humane washing, greenwashing, and market fluctuations shaping consumer perception, livestock producers need clear, authentic marketing to stay competitive. This session, led by Michele Thorne, Executive Director of the Good Meat Project, will explore the 2026 marketing trends, threats, and opportunities you’ll need to know to stay ahead.
Presenter: Michele Thorne, Good Meat Project Executive Director
First Aid Fundamentals for Livestock: Caring for pigs
March 17, 2026
Farm life is unpredictable, and emergencies with your livestock can happen at any time. Join us for the second in our First Aid Fundamentals series "First Aid Fundamentals for Livestock: Caring for Pigs", where we'll provide practical, hands-on knowledge to help you care for pigs in critical situations.
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.
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.
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.
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
The Key to Superior Adaptation, Performance and Resilience: Epigenetics
October 8, 2024 3pmET
There is a hidden sector of genetics that very few are aware of, but affects everything. This hidden sector is called Epigenetics and is defined as "The influence of environmental factors on the degree of expression of gene pairs". In this webinar we will explore the intricacies of epigenetics and how to use this to our favor.
Climate Loss and Grief: Building Understanding & Resilience
October 15 , 2024
Many people are suffering from emotional consequences associated with anticipated or actual environmental changes and reacting with despair, grief, or uncertainty. Farmers, ranchers, and food producers have uniquely intimate relationships to places and landscapes, and as a result, are especially vulnerable to climate-related losses and grief.
Exploring H-2A Farm Workers
November 6, 2024 12pm
The H-2A visa program makes it possible for farmers to bring in citizens of other countries for agricultural work in the United States. With a tight labor market, the visa program is experiencing a lot of growth – farmers who have never considered it before are taking a closer look.
Advocating for Higher-Welfare Farming in the New Administration: What’s Next Post-Election?
November 13, 2024
Find out what the results of the November 2024 election mean for higher-welfare farming and the Farm Bill and how you can take action to support continued progress!
Could it happen here? Preparing Your Farm, Family, and Livestock for Disaster
December 2, 2024, 1pm ET
When disaster strikes, we commonly hear people say, "I didn't think it would happen to us." Wildfires, floods, hurricanes, blizzards, ice storms, tornadoes, and other natural disasters are in the news every day. The odds are that someday, it WILL happen to us!
Food Safety Liability Basics
December 9, 2024 12pm
It’s every farmer or rancher’s worst nightmare: Someone claims to have gotten sick from the food they produced. No matter how safe the operation is, the risk is always there. The good news is there are ways to manage and mitigate the impacts of this risk. We’ll discuss the best practices every farmer or rancher can adopt to get a foothold in managing their food safety liability exposure.
How Living Green Algae Boosts Feed Quality and Livestock Health
September 30, 2024
Living green algae are powerful biostimulants and have been supporting health and nutrition above and below ground for thousands of years.
Silvopasture For Poultry
September 23, 2024
Anyone who raises poultry knows they love cover, and planting trees and shrubs for cover and shade just makes sense. We can also plant species that will feed your birds, reducing feed costs and increasing bird health. So join Trees for Graziers to learn about the fledgling field of poultry silvopasture.