Agriculture News & Announcements

• Heart of the Farm – Women in Agriculture Summer ‘Coffee Chats’ Series begins in June 2021
• Cranberry Harvest in a Covid Era
• Virtual Cranberry Mini-Clinic Recording
• Cranberry Crop Management Journal
• Area Animal Science Days 2019

Latest Extension Dairy Team News

• Dairy tech tour: Transition to robotic milking scheduled for April 11, 2023
• Farm & Industry Short Course offers Spanish for Dairy Industry Series Beginning in February 2023
• Access the latest UW-Madison Division of Extension dairy cattle research during the upcoming Badger Dairy Insight Webinar Series
• Cocktail forage mixes, managing heifer maturity and the randomness of repro will be highlight in Extension’s Badger Dairy Insight webinars
• Caring for calves and dairy data projects: first topics of Extension’s 2022 Badger Dairy Insight webinar series

Integrated Pest & Crop Management News

• National IR-4 awards for Scott Chapman, Dan Heider
• Southwestern Wisconsin Planter Clinic April 3, Fennimore
• Successful cereal rye cover crop termination in soybean
• Lack of Effective Waterhemp Control, Group 14 soil residual herbicides
• Wisconsin Palmer amaranth, where are you?

Wisconsin Agriculture News

• Division of Extension announces recipients of 2022 Wisconsin Idea Collaboration Grant
• Extension, CALS representatives bring expertise to state conservation board
• Introducing Division of Extension’s Agriculture Water Quality Outreach Specialists
• Badger Crop Connect topics for summer webinars announced
• Ag educators recognized by Wisconsin Association of County Agricultural Agents

Documents

• Pricing Drought Stressed Corn
• Farming Facts Brochure(2 pages, 59 KB .pdf)
• Wood County Agriculture: Value and economic impact (2 pages, 800 KB .pdf)
• Livestock Mortality Composting Factsheet(2 pages, 666 KB .pdf)
• Livestock Mortality Composting PowerPoint(63 pages, 15 MB .pdf)
• Wisconsin Custom Rate Guide 2017

If you have any questions regarding Agriculture in Wood County, please contact:

Matt Lippert
Agriculture Agent
Extension Wood County
400 Market Street
PO Box 8095
Wisconsin Rapids, WI 54495-8095
Phone: 715-421-8440 (or dial 711 for Relay)
Fax: 715-421-8476
Email: matthew.lippert@wisc.edu

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