Pastured Poultry Webinar

Another day, another webinar it seems. I’ll be brief in my description, but this webinar, entitled “Pastured Poultry Production and Profitability” will be presented by NCAT and NCAT’s own Terrell Spencer at 12pm Central time on February 7, 2013. The title of the webinar should give some description into what will be talked about, but […]

Webinar Tomorrow: Decision-Making and Pollution Prevention

Tomorrow, the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center will be kicking off its spring Sustainability Seminar series, named “Multiple Facets of Sustainability”, with the intriguingly titled “Beyond Energy Efficiency: Behavior Change Tactics for the Pollution Prevention Community”. Appealing to the environmentally-minded as well as those interested in psychology, tomorrow’s talk, headed by Susan Mazur-Stommen, Director of Behavior and […]

Webinar on AGR-Lite Insurance

The National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) announced this week that they will be hosting a free, hour-long webinar on Thursday, November 29, at 1 Eastern time, on federal Adjusted Gross Revenue Lite (AGR-Lite) crop insurance. The AGR-Lite is not tied to a single crop or commodity, but rather whole-farm revenue, and so is designed to protect […]

Become a NCRS Technical Service Provider

The USDA is putting a call out to all organic inspectors, crop advisors, organic farmers and non-governmental employees working with organic and sustainable farmers to partake in a November 1 Technical Service Provider training webinar. The USDA defines the position as “individuals or businesses that have technical expertise in conservation planning and design for a […]