Increasing Climate Capacity Among Agricultural Service Providers

Commodities

Practices

• Crop Production: cropping systems
• Education and Training: decision support system, extension, workshop
• Energy: energy use, renewable energy
• Natural Resources/Environment: carbon sequestration
• Pest Management: weather monitoring

This project will provide a series of 5 identical in-person workshops held across the state of Indiana for Indiana Conservation Partnership staff (including Purdue Extension Ag and Natural Resource Educators, NRCS staff, and SWCD staff, among others) focused on climate competency, accessing climate data and tools, and presenting climate information.  Participants in each workshop will leave with a basic slide deck of climate data and instructions for adapting that data to their location.  Outcomes include increased climate literacy and intent to use climate resources with clientele, with longer term outcomes assessing use of resources with clientele and clientele intent to change behaviors as a result.  This project has close ties and will share information back and forth with ENC 23-231.

*Note:  Project timeline for completion ends on September 30, 2025, although I am not able to select less than 24 months.  If requested, a 12-month follow up survey for long-term outcomes could be added to extend the timeline.

• Development of climate data and tools workshops
• Development of slide deck with instructions
• Dissemination of updated tool data from ENC 23-231.
• 50 attendees would be invited to each workshop, with 35 expected to attend (15 Extension, 10 SWCD, 10 NRCS)