Illinois Forage Institute 2026
We’ve gathered all the help you need to run a successful forage and livestock operation together in one room. This year’s Institute will focus on high-quality educational sessions and producer engagement, bringing together an expected 100 to 150 farmers, landowners, and industry professionals from across the state.
Stock Cropper Field Day
The Cluster Cluck 5000 is back in action. Join us to see updates to our mobile livestock barn designed for easier use, hear what we learned in 2025, and meet the 2026 animals.
Build a Regenerative Grazing System Contest
Be creative as you plan a successful regenerative grazing system using adaptive practices. The contest includes a short quiz on your understanding of adaptive grazing practices. Then, apply what you’ve learned by mapping out a grazing system, including forage maintenance, pasture design, and grazing rotation schedules.
Soul of the Soil Conference
The Soul of the Soil Conference invites growers, land stewards, and curious minds to gather where soil is more than dirt—it’s the foundation of life.
Grow and Graze: Producing High-Value Forage
Learn what other Illinois producers are doing to improve their grazing and forage operations.
Great Lakes Forage & Grazing Conference
More than 600 years of combined forage and grazing experience will gather in Clare on March 19 for the 2026 Great Lakes Forage & Grazing Conference
Grow and Graze: Infrastructure: Fencing and Watering
Learn what other Illinois producers are doing to improve their grazing and forage operations.
Profitable Pastures Grazing School
Integrate pasture grazing into your farming operation and come up with practical strategies for managing your land that increase profits and improve soil health.
Midwest Covers and Grain Conference
The Midwest Covers & Grains Conference includes farmer-led sessions for experienced practitioners and for those looking to add small grains and cover crops for the first time.
Grow and Graze: Soil Health
Learn what other Illinois producers are doing to improve their grazing and forage operations.
Common Ground North
At this unique educational and social event, farmers, landowners, and supporters come together to gain practical skills, brainstorm creative solutions, share success stories, and build community.
Grow and Graze Winter Webinar
Our Grow and Graze webinars connect producers to peers and experts who have implemented successful grazing strategies.
ACRES ECO-AG Conference 2025
You will have direct, small-classroom access to the top minds in eco-agriculture, where you can learn the real details behind their success, and ask questions specific to your farm or operation.
Virtual Fence Foundations: Pasture Nutrient Management
Pasture Nutrient Management: Join us for a discussion on pasture fertility management and how virtual fencing might be a tool for improved nutrient distribution.
ILGLC Grazing School: Waltonville
We’ll spend two days discussing ways to build soil health through profitable regenerative practices, including rotational grazing, pasture infrastructure upgrades, and innovative marketing options.
Grazing Technical Service Provider Training
Be the go-to source on grazing management in the Midwest. This free Grazing Technical Service Provider Training equips you with the tools to help graziers with grazing management systems, fencing, and watering systems.
Kentucky Intermediate Grazing School
This high-quality hands-on program is an excellent opportunity for livestock producers and agricultural and conservation professionals to enhance their grazing skills.
Grow and Graze Fall Webinar
Grow and Graze is designed to connect producers to peers and experts who have successfully implemented grazing strategies. We’re creating a space where producers can share what’s working in their grazing systems and help one another make more informed, profitable decisions.
ILGLC Grazing School: Cambridge
You’ll learn the basics of of adaptive grazing, soil and forage health, water and fencing systems, and extending the grazing season for multispecies grazing.
Regenerative Farming for Improved Water Quality
Explore how regenerative agriculture can improve land use, generate higher water quality, restore ecosystems for a healthier environment, and create healthier water systems and soil health.
Virtual Fence Foundations: Intensive Grazing on Perennial Systems
Intensive Grazing on Perennial Systems: During this session we will talk about the opportunity for virtual fencing in perennial pastures. Learn about intensive grazing management techniques in relation to forage availability.
Dairy Grazing Pasture Walk 2025 at Tremont
Join us for a FREE Pasture Walk at Corbin Steiner’s farm in Tremont to learn about dairy grazing, cover crops grazing, and more.
Soil Health Field Day
Hear from experienced farmers using cover crops and other practices that are improving soil health, reducing stress, cutting input costs, and building farm legacy.
Pasture Walk 2025 at St. Anne
Join us for a FREE Pasture Walk to see a cow-calf grazing operation that incorporates annual forages and winter feeding to improve soil health.
Fresh Pasture Farm Pasture Walk
When you nurture your pastures, you enhance animal health and reduce costs. That’s the lesson you’ll learn at the Fresh Pasture Farms Pasture Walk from 5 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, July 9.
Soil Health Field Day
Hear from experienced farmers using cover crops and other practices that are improving soil health, reducing stress, cutting input costs, and building farm legacy.
Summer Pasture Walk 2025 at Beardstown
Learn to improve your rotational grazing system as you walk the Leo Arnold Farm. Observe the farm’s permanent fences, solar chargers, and more.
Dudley Smith Farm Field Day
Livestock management practices impact your profit, your soil, and your water. An all-star lineup will include researchers from University of Illinois College of ACES and Illinois Extension.
Pasture Ecology Workshop
Pastures are not just a one-dimensional system used to support grazing livestock. Healthy pastures are full of life both above and below the soil surface. In this day-long pasture ecology class, we will look at the entire pasture system and all of the life that it supports above and below the growing forages.
Ag Coffee Talk: Livestock Integration
The Coffee Talk Series shares Nutrient Loss Reduction Strategies and Conservation Practices with the community, offering program information and a platform for farmers to discuss implementation in the field, connect, and learn from each other.
USDA Beginning Farmer and Rancher Veterans Webinar 2
Register for a free webinar series for military veterans, transitioning service members, and military spouses on how to work with the USDA to prepare for a career in agriculture.
USDA Beginning Farmer and Rancher Veterans Webinar
Register for a free webinar series for military veterans, transitioning service members, and military spouses on how to work with the USDA to prepare for a career in agriculture.
2025 Spring Beginning Grazing School
Join us for the 2025 spring beginning grazing school, covering topics from plant identification, rotational grazing, soils, and more!
2025 Kentucky Spring Fencing School Owensboro
This program is designed for producers and agricultural professionals to learn the newest fencing methods and sound fencing construction through a combination of classroom and hands-on learning.