WEBINARS

AgSource proudly offers live and on-demand webinars, covering a range of topics including industry trends, demonstrations and more.

UPCOMING LIVE WEBINARS

Tuesday, August 6, 2024 ● 11:00AM CT

Unlock the power of nutrition to reduce methane emissions in your dairy operation. Join us as we explore the latest research on feed additives and feeding strategies, showing how you can improve your bottom line while helping the environment. Gain practical tools to make informed decisions and calculate the potential economic benefits for your farm.

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Is Potassium the answer to your crop’s nutrient needs?

As one of the three primary macronutrients essential for plant growth and productivity, potassium is key to achieving peak crop performance. In this webinar, explore how your soil’s characteristics affect potassium availability and hear ways for optimizing and monitoring its uptake. Discover effective strategies for applying potassium fertilizer and learn from real-world case studies to refine your potassium management practices and enhance crop yields.

Managing Methane Through Nutrition

The Three Pillars of Unlocking Greenhouse Performance

Is your greenhouse operating to its full potential? Discover the three essential analytical tests – soilless media, water and tissue analysis – that unlock optimal plant growth. Learn which tools and best practices empower you to make data-driven decisions and achieve peak crop performance, and why testing through an accredited lab is essential for accurate results.

Unlocking the Power of Water: Optimizing Animal Health and Performance Through Water Quality

Water: Often overlooked, yet crucial! This webinar explores water quality’s impact on livestock health with Dr. Sockett and Dr. Friedericks. Learn and discover AgSource’s testing solutions.

Data drives sustainability: Success through farmer-led initiatives

Learn how farmers in the Upper Midwest are using their farm-level data to better manage their farm businesses for sustainability outcomes. Lauren Brey of Farmers for Sustainable Food will provide an overview of farmer-led sustainability projects that engage supply chain partners for mutual success, as well as share resources available to farmers to replicate this successful model in their own communities.

thinking strategically about sustainability programs on your dairy

With a multitude of carbon, sustainability and conservation programs available to producers, we want to help you explore how to find the right fit for your farm. Part 1 of our Milk, Methane, and More webinar series will walk through how to think about sustainability programs featuring expert insight from Patrick Wood, Founder of Ag Methane Advisors. Join us as we discuss manure strategies, soil fertility, enteric methane and dive deeper into Patrick’s specialty – digestor projects. We’ll also share how AgSource’s growing suite of testing services can help support your operational decision making.

Transition Cow Secrets: What she wishes she could tell you

We all know how important the transition period is to our cows; it’s a key topic in any dairy publication or meeting. But how do we set a baseline for our transition cow performance? What are our cows already telling us about our management, and how do we use that information to steer our next steps? This session will cover AgSource transition cow analysis tools, as well as share insights uncovered from the data of thousands of cows – your cows – through our AgSource database.

How can plant tissue testing improve your crop performance?

Plant tissue testing isn’t just a tool to use when your crop is showing visible signs of distress. Join AgSource experts, Jim Friedericks and Garret Johns, as they share ways to implement an in-season tissue testing program to improve crop performance. We’ll dig into the different laboratory tests and reports available and uncover how to leverage the results this season and beyond.

Behind the scenes at a soil lab: the practices behind reliable data

Have you ever wondered what goes on at the lab when you send in a sample? In this webinar, we’ll take you behind the scenes and share the methods and processes used at AgSource laboratories to provide accurate, reliable and trustworthy data. Jim Friedericks, PhD, will walk you through our process from start to finish and share more on AgSource’s rigorous quality assurance measures.

Use cover crops like a pro on your farm

Hear from agronomy experts in the field and the laboratory as they share how implementing cover crop practices can improve dairy operations. Chris Clark, CCA, agronomic sales manager, AgSource, and Nick Guilette, conservation coordinator, Ebert Enterprises, will explore how to harness the power of cover crops and emerging practices, discuss how to record nutrient recycling with a biomass analysis, and look at proper nutrient management.

Molecular Detection System Technical Webinar

Pathogen testing is a critical element of food safety, used to verify food processing controls and help identify sources of contamination. Historically, pathogen testing has been challenging due to the complex nature of food matrices, laborious sample preparation, and slow time to results. Using an advanced molecular method can help overcome these hurdles.

Join AgSource, along with members of the Neogen® Food Safety technical team, for a webinar on using the 3M™ Molecular Detection System to rapidly detect foodborne pathogens, streamline your process, and improve the efficiency of your operation.

Maximizing the Soil in Your Wildlife Food Plot

Join AgSource Laboratories soil experts, Casey Robinson and Chris Clark, with special guest Raised Hunting founder and CEO, David Holder; as they discuss the soil ins and outs of picking the ideal location for a wildlife food plot, why soils sampling is important to program success and how to properly take and submit soil samples for the most accurate results.

WATER IQ - HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW YOUR FARMS WATER?

Join Meredith Bowers, AgSource, and Amber Radatz, UW Discovery Farms, will discuss the importance of understanding the water resources on your farm and the benefits of testing water for agricultural operations.

We’ll explore how water sources affect fertilizer nutrient requirements and herbicide treatments, and dig into relevant research on how edge-of-field and tile water monitoring can impact your farm.

KetoMonitor Delivers Big Picture Insights

New data analysis has revealed the multifaceted impact and implications of ketosis on a herd. Since 2015, AgSource’ KetoMonitor tool has been helping farmers track subclinical ketosis within their herds using a milk sample. Dr. Heather White, University of Wisconsin, will highlight the insights found in tracking cows flagged for subclinical ketosis and how we can leverage that information for better management. Taliah Danzinger, AgSource, will then demonstrate how to apply the data from KetoMonitor on your farm, including real life examples and use cases.

Q&A: OVERCOMING CURRENT AG CHALLENGES

Soil Health Testing: What We've Learned

Jim Friedericks, Ph.D., AgSource Laboratories, and Stefan Gailans, Ph.D., Practical Farmers of Iowa, bring a wealth of experience and knowledge to continue the conversation about soil health. Listen as they share how management practices influence your soil health score and the soil’s microbial response, discuss the importance of carbon to soil health and reveal key observations based on their analytical work and research in the field. Bring value to your bottom line – and boost your soil health knowledge – with this webinar opportunity.

Manure Matters: Analysis, Management and Trends

AgSource has analyzed thousands of manure samples from dairy and swine operations and we’re sharing the trends we’ve seen and how to use that data on your farm. Join AgSource Laboratories Dr. Jim Friedericks and 4-R Nutrient Management Planner, Haily Sand. They’ll provide tips on how to leverage available manure data, prep for sustainable manure applications and maximize manure as a vital nutrient source.

Managing soil health for better turf

Want to learn more about the importance of soil health in turf? View our free, 30-minute Soil Health webinar on-demand hosted by Chris Ibsen, Regional Sales Representative at AgSource Laboratories.

Is plant tissue testing right for you?

Join Chris Clark, CCA and Eric Joost, CCA as they cover the 10 most practical ways to apply plant tissue results from various testing programs. They’ll show just how affordable and easy collecting your own plant tissue samples from any crop can be, and how to benefit from your own testing program.

8 characteristics that can define field profitability now

Learn what your field is telling you right now about future performance.

IS YOUR SOIL IN NEED OF A CHECKUP?

Just like our annual checkups with a physician, soil too needs an annual checkup to ensure its health is in check. In this webinar we cover the importance of a soil health program for quality yields and how a yearly soil checkup can alert you of potential soil health issues.

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