UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — An in-person workshop designed to equip conservation professionals with skills to identify on-farm resource concerns and implement conservation practices will occur at three locations across Pennsylvania in October.
Penn State Extension’s Center for Agricultural Conservation Assistance Training will hold the “Ag Conservation Keystone Training” Oct. 7-9 at Penn State’s University Park campus, Oct. 15-17 at Penn State Hazelton and Oct. 28-30 at Penn State Beaver.
This course is intended for conservation district technicians, managers and other professionals in the field. It is a required first step in achieving the new agricultural conservation professional certification, a program in development from the center.
Participants can learn:
— Agricultural literacy topics important to conservation professionals.
— Resource concern identification on agricultural lands.
— Planning criteria for agricultural best management practices.
— Agricultural conservation practice function and implementation.
— In-field basics for agricultural conservation technical assistance.
The registration fee of $60 includes lunch. Participants must register by Sept. 29 for University Park, Oct. 6 for Hazelton and Oct. 20 for Beaver.
More information is available on the Penn State Extension website at https://extension.psu.edu/ag-con-keystone-training.
