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: Soil Health
Learn what other Illinois producers are doing to improve their grazing and forage operations.
Grow and Graze: Infrastructure: Fencing and Watering
Learn what other Illinois producers are doing to improve their grazing and forage operations.
Grow and Graze: Producing High-Value Forage
Learn what other Illinois producers are doing to improve their grazing and forage operations.
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.
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.
Underneath the Canopy: Exploring Interseeding, Cover Crop Mixes and Soil Health
David Dedert farms with his father, Dean, raising corn, soybeans, wheat, cattle and sheep near Quincy, Illinois. Part of their operation includes being farm operators at Twin Mill Farm, a 90-acre family farm that has been in the Mittelberg family for over 100 years.
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.
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.
Virtual Fence Foundations: Cropland
Opportunities for Grazing on Cropland: Learn about potential species to plant, when to plant them, and how to use virtual fencing to best take advantage of those forage sources.
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.
'In the Beginning' Grazing Field Day
The field day features presentations on pasture layout and design, pasture scoring, and resources to help.
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.
Grow and Graze Webinar Series
Learn what other Illinois growers and graziers are doing on their farms to improve their livestock grazing operations. The quarterly online chats will be heavy on conversation, light on slides, so you can listen in wherever you are: in the pasture, in the truck, or home.
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.
Annual Grazing Conference 2025
The ILGLC Grazing Conference offers a unique opportunity for producers to gain practical knowledge, see how grazing systems can improve farm profitability, and address challenges like fencing, water systems, and rotational grazing. Whether you’re raising cattle, sheep, goats, or other livestock, the conference provides insights and resources to enhance your operation’s productivity and sustainability.
Northwestern Illinois Winter Tour 2025
This year’s Northwestern Illinois Forage and Grassland Council Winter Tour includes visits to these Wisconsin businesses: Quality Liquid Feeds, Vortex Optics, and Midwestern Bio Ag. Register by Feb. 4.