Feeding Crops for Higher Yields

Facilitated by Gina Errico

In this webinar, we will discuss different ways to approach external audiences through writing. Key takeaways for participants will be learning techniques and examples to approach sensitive or ‘doomsday’ topics, avoid jargon, and engage their audience through writing. Participants will be able to utilize samples of their own writing to practice language modification and writing techniques.

The webinar will be live on Tuesday, January 27, 2026 from 2-3pm ET (11am-noon PT). The Zoom Webinar platform will be used for the presentation. Be sure to connect to the webinar using a device approved to access Zoom.

February 2, 2026: Maximilian Pichler (University of Regensburg) – The {cito} R package: Building and Training Deep Neural Networks.

Facilitated by Rob Kunzig

Environmental trends these days offer plenty of reasons to feel fear and a sense of loss. Those are powerful emotions and can be strong motivators to take action. But they’re not enough. People need a positive vision of the future and a positive connection to what they’re fighting for. In communicating with the public, ecologists can emphasize the joy and delight inherent in their subjects as well as the gloom. The pleasure of finding things out is infectious: In this talk, Kunzig will encourage you to spread it, drawing on his four decades of experience as a journalist writing about science and the environment.

Date: Thursday, February 5, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Central

During the 2025 cropping season 10 researchers from 9 states across the United States (Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Mississippi, Arkansas, Oklahoma and California) implemented a unified protocol in the effort to better understand the influence of sulfur on corn production and more specifically the impact on the response to nitrogen fertilizer. This webinar will discuss the rationale for the implementation of project and the early results.

Sponsored by The Sulphur Institute.

Dedicated to the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

10 Feb 19:00 PST / 10 Feb 22:00 EST

Date: Thursday, February 12, 2026
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Central

How do we turn applied nitrogen into protein and yield rather than losses? This webinar moves beyond the nitrogen × sulfur conversation to examine nitrate assimilation as a protein-production system. While sulfur plays a critical role, nitrogen use efficiency is ultimately governed by a broader set of biological and nutritional processes, including calcium. Learn how potassium and secondary macronutrients like calcium, sulfur, and magnesium work together to drive N-efficiency. Drawing from global research and on-farm observations, speakers challenge convention to explore balanced nutrient strategies, including polyhalite, to improve NUE, protein formation, and yield stability.

Facilitated by: Annie Adams

This webinar is a gentle, hands-on introduction to ecological data analysis in R. We will focus on the Tidyverse—a collection of tools in R designed to make data cleaner and easier to visualize.

The session will include:

• Importing Data into R
• Cleaning messy data (including pivoting, cleaning column names/observations, and updating data types)
• Creating a basic but powerful visualization of your newly cleaned data

Facilitated by: Okan Ürker

February 26, 2026  noon-1:00 PM ET

Date: Thursday, March 12, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Central

What happens between planting a coffee seed and roasting a finished product, and why does it matter to agriculture beyond coffee? This webinar features JBC Coffee Roasters who will walk through their seed-to-roast supply chain, highlighting how sustainability, sourcing decisions, and farmer partnerships shape quality, resilience, and long-term viability.