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

Latest Extension Dairy Team News

• New Extension Dairy Workers Training Courses
• UW-Madison Division of Extension welcomes two new outreach specialists to focus on dairy programming and education
• Dairy Spanish Webinar El “Break” Info-Lechero
• Access the latest UW-Madison Division of Extension Dairy Cattle Research during the upcoming Badger Dairy Insight monthly webinar series
• Milk prices and dry weather impacting farmers

Integrated Pest & Crop Management News

• Chris Clark, new nutrient and soil management education specialist
• Wisconsin Field Crops Disease Update, August 9
• Wisconsin DATCP Field Notes, Aug 10
• Wisconsin Vegetable Crop Updates
• 2023 Wisconsin Winter Wheat Performance Trials

Wisconsin Agriculture News

• Association of County Agricultural Agents Honors 2023 Award Recipients
• Innovation Awards Reinforce Community Connections through Extension Research and Outreach
• 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

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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