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)