Time & Location
Dates: January 21 - March 04, 2027, Live webinars on Thursdays (recorded for later viewing)
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM MDT (please note time zone!)
Scholarship Deadline: January 15, 2027
Registration Deadline: January 21, 2027
Instructor: HMI Certified Educator Preston Sullivan
Cost: $350, includes learning materials
Overview
If you are excited about Regenerative Agriculture and raising crops, HMI’s Holistic Cropping Planning Course will give you the tools to grow healthy crops, healthy soil, and healthy profits. In this course, you will learn how to effectively manage your cropland and cropping practices to increase soil fertility and resilience as well as increase production and profitability from your cropping practices. Learn how to complete crop production planning all in the context of regenerative and conservation agriculture. This curriculum was developed with input from master farmers and educators and explains key cropping concepts such as no-till, cover cropping, cocktail seeding, mulching, intercropping, shelterbelts, perennial crops, and integrating livestock, as well as providing numerous planning worksheets and templates as well examples of completed worksheets and a long list of multi-media resources for further study. Whether you’re growing vegetables, fruit, grains, or forage, or are a large or small producer, this course covers it all.
Topics
Soil fertility building principles and practices
How to integrate livestock into cropping practices
How to identify crop management issues and address them profitably
Understanding how key practices like cover crops, polyseeding, permaculture, interplanting, and perennial crops can work together to create resilient and profitable landscapes.
Outcomes
Create a crop plan that addresses both cash crops and ecosystem strategies
Create a field map for ease of management
Prioritize management decisions to integrate ecosystem strategies with cash crops
Develop a crop sequence
Learn how to implement crop plans and address crop management issues
Learn how to integrate a crop plan with a financial plan
Fee & Financial Assistance
$350 per person
Eligible for Scholarships
If you are awarded a scholarship, you will receive a discount code. Click here for more information on how to use your code.
Technology /Language Requirements
Computer (PC or Mac are fine)
Reliable high-speed internet access
Internet browser (Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, or Safari)
Microsoft Word and Excel
Telephone (cell or landline) OR Microphone
E-mail address
All classes are taught in English (unless otherwise specified)
Your Presenter(s):
Preston Sullivan
My experience spans 30 years in agriculture as a researcher, educator, consultant and farmer. I hold a master’s in Soil Science and a PhD in Crop and Soil Environmental Sciences. I have been using Holistic Management to manage my own life and money since 1995 and was certified to teach Holistic Management in 1997. I developed the first-edition Holistic Biological Monitoring guide for Croplands (https://holisticmanage.wpengine.com/product/holistic-management-crop-monitoring-manual/). This guide makes it possible for people to assess the condition of the four ecosystem processes on their cropland. I also own and operate a small fruit and vegetable farm in south Mississippi since 2007. During my 14-years working as a Technical Specialist with the National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service (http://www.attra.org), I supported sustainable producers, researchers, educators, and federal land managers throughout the U.S. through one-on- one consultation, case responses, educational workshops, and invited presentations. I’ve authored 33 publications for farmers on a variety of sustainable-agriculture topics distributed by the National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service.